Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules

> I'm obviously not going to stop anyone from putting URLs in .gitmodules
> and I can see that it would be useful in practice, but I still think
> that it doesn't matter where the submodule was located at any
> given point in history (from the point of view of the superproject).
> It only matters where the submodule is located now.
>
> You may be bisecting a problem and you may need to clone a submodule
> for a point in history when the submodule was placed somewhere else.
> (You may not have had a need to checkout the submodule before,
> or it may simply not be used in the current version of the supermodule.)
> So, I think it would still be useful to have an optional additional
> out-of-tree mechanism of getting usable URLs if the URLs in .gitmodules
> or your local config don't work.