From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:29:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.
Message-ID: <7vd4us1jds.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1194004427-26934-1-git-send-email-pkufranky@gmail.com>

How does this work when you are a toplevel developer and do not
have the submodule cloned and checked out?

Our code should treat having the submodule directory and not
having it when there is a mode 160000 entry in the index equally
likely.  Cloning and checking-out is _not_ the norm (nor the
exception).