From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:16:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarified how "git submodule add" handles relative paths.
Message-ID: <7vhb86a4kt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DE93B29.4030401@web.de>

Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:

> Now I understand this issue better I'd vote for leaving the relative url
> like it is, comment it better in the man page and give a better error
> message when that happens. After all this issue only surprised a few
> people, mostly due to the lack of information in the error message and
> man page, so I'd rather prefer to not change the behavior but the wording.

The "how about this" patch you are voting against (I am neutral by the
way) is a response to your earlier "I have three use cases and the current
implementation is forgetting the third", which in turn was a response to
my "your third use case does not count, so the updated wording of the
documentation is wrong---it should say 'do not', not 'cannot'".

So what should the updated document say?