From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:37:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-submodule: allow submodule name and path to differ
Message-ID: <8c5c35580706100137m3c3f3d24n873f2474a8835e0e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqfod57b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 6/10/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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;

Hmm, what the patch does should match what is described in

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/48879

except that I've kept [module] instead of renaming it to [submodule].
But my wording ("module.$path") might be disconcerting :)

Fwiw: I do admit that the [path "path"] construct was a mistake.

-- 
larsh