Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-submodule: allow submodule name and path to differ

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano 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; wouldn't trying to support both leave ambiguity and confusion?
> >
> > Just my 2cents: git-submodule is not yet in any released version. So let's
> > fix things early. In our world, it's not like you lose face when you have
> > to admit mistakes. (Instead, you lose face when you refuse to fix them.)
> > Ah, if only politics learnt from our world...
>
> Well, I completely agree with what you said up to "So let's fix
> things early.", but when I re-read what I wrote, I realize that
> my wording was bad --- I did not mean to drive the discussion in
> that direction.
>
> It was not Lars's *mistake* to admit to begin with.  His was one
> valid design that was consistent within his patch series.  The
> thing is that there just was a better alternative suggested
> later; it does not make the first iteration a mistake in any
> way.
>
> So, Lars, my apologies if I offended you -- I did not mean it
> that way.