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Re: [RFC/PATCH] clone: introduce clone.submoduleGitDir to relocate $GITDIR

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2013, 17:18 UTC
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> No, the point is people make mistakes. What do we do in that case? Or
> will you introduce yet another "gc" command for clean up ~/bare?

I do not know if it will be a "gc", but we would need a way for the user to say "I no longer need the repository for this submodule kept locally here (I may have to re-clone when I check out a version that needs the submodule)" to free up the .git/modules/<name> directories in the superproject. We might want to allow "submodule deinit" to also ask for it, but "deinit" will not be the only occasion the user might want it.

It is already a problem that needs to be addressed in the current setup.
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