From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:27:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-submodule: allow submodule name and path to differ
Message-ID: <7vbqfod57b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1181425132294-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com>

Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:

> This teaches git-submodule to check module.*.path when looking for the
> config for a submodule path. If no match is found it falls back to the
> current behaviour (module.$path).

I have a feeling that it might be much less troublesome in the
longer term to admit that module.$path was a mistake and support
only one format; wouldn't trying to support both leave ambiguity
and confusion?