From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:37:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules
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In-Reply-To: <20130407212342.GA19857@elie.Belkin>

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>>             It's about the core object code of git parsing links, as
>> opposed to a fringe submodule.c/ submodule.sh parsing .gitmodules.
>
> What's stopping the core object code of git parsing .gitmodules?  What
> is the core object code?  How does this compare to other metadata
> files like .gitattributes and .gitignore?

Somewhat related to the topic. Why can't .gitattributes be used for
storing what's currently in .gitmodules?
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Duy