Re: [RFC/PATCH] clone: introduce clone.submoduleGitDir to relocate $GITDIR

> Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> No, submodule code does not change "git clone". If I'm not mistaken,
>> submodule will not kick in until you type "git submodule something".
>> If I turn clone.submoduleGitDir on, how can I undo my mistake in a
>> user friendly way?
>
> So, if you currently want to add a submodule, you have to 'git
> submodule add', which runs clone internally apart from other things.
> How do you undo this mistake?

> What I'm essentially proposing is to give the job of cloning back to
> clone, and the job of adding back to add, instead of creating an
> unnatural abstraction over them using 'git submodule add'.  The point
> being: why would you ever _want_ to clone inside a worktree unless you
> intend to add a submodule?  In other words, you intent for running a
> 'git clone' inside a worktree is exactly the same as your intent for
> running a 'git submodule add' inside a worktree.  Ofcourse, if you
> have a fringe case where that was _not_ your intent, we'll provide a
> command-line switch to turn off the relocation for that clone.