Re: Adding nested repository with slash adds files instead of gitlink

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2018, 14:57 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:55 PM Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:39 AM Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info> wrote:
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> > What this is about that when doing `git add path/` (with trailing /),
> >
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> This is what I was referring to. If you search for 'Fake Submodules',
> you'll see that some people were/are intentionally using this instead of
> subtrees or submodules. Unfortunately the original article [1] seems to
> be dead, but searching url in the mailing list archives leads to some
> additional discussion on the subject [2,3].

Abusing a long standing bug does not make it a feature. I'm not opposed to having a new option to keep that behavior, but it should not be the default. If you use it that way, you're on your own.

> [1]:http://debuggable.com/posts/git-fake-submodules:4b563ee4-f3cc-4061-967e-0e48cbdd56cb
> [2]:https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqy47o6q71.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/
> [3]:https://public-inbox.org/git/CAGZ79kZofg3jS+g0weTdco+PGo_p-_Hd-NScZ=q2UfB7tF2GPA@mail.gmail.com/

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Duy