Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] submodule: remove validate_submodule_git_dir()

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Sep 30, 2025, 13:35 UTC
Message-ID: <9c313e46-805e-4b10-b8f9-6e2d5bf0ccf1@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250908140117.262205-9-adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>

On Mon, Sep 8, 2025, at 16:01, Adrian Ratiu wrote:

> The validate_submodule_git_dir test is not very useful anymore, after
> submodule names are encoded to resolve gitdir path conflicts.
>
> In other words, the purpouse of gitdir path encoding is precisely to

s/purpouse/purpose/

> avoid such conflicts as this function tries to also prevent.
>
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