Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add gitmodules(5)

> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:27:00AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> > On 6/12/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:
> > >Your previous patch had "_a_ path" instead of "_the_ path".
> > >I prefer the former since it allows a module to be checkoud out
> > >at multiple locations.
> >
> > This is somewhat intentional. I want to move the submodule repos into
> > .git/submodules/$name/ (with working dir) and symlink this directory
>
> I had that in my patch series, but I got a complaint that symlinks
> don't work on Windows.

>
> > Multiple checkout paths for a single submodule will bring havoc on
> > this plan, so I need to ask: what is the use-case for multiple
> > checkout paths?
>
> The case where you need two different versions of the same
> submodule in one (presumably big) project.