From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:54:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFCv4 PATCH 00/14] Checkout aware of Submodules!
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xpWqiWeMOMauYgtVaiUngd73_dUqRxyWcp0QPHvgOe+vg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlgt5vlse.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> Integrate updating the submodules into git checkout,...
>
> It was more or less a pleasant read, once I decided to pretend that
> I were a machine who uses identifiers only to identify locations in
> the program ;-) IOW, for human consumption, the new names introduced
> were sometimes quite confusing and went against helping understanding.
>

Based on my cursory reading, I agree. I had trouble understanding how
the process worked because the names were somewhat confusing. They
started to make some sense as I read more. I think v4 had better names
than v3, but they were still somewhat confusing to me.

Regards,
Jake