Re: Submodule regression in 2.14?

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Aug 21, 2017, 16:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYaBGDyScWihJ7gRdbiJfMPOnNo8LfkB58+WAcOtXyibQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpobs9hjy.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> As long as we are talking about idealized future world (well, at
> least an idea of somebody's "ideal", not necessarily shared by
> everybody), I wonder if there is even any need to have commits in
> submodules in such a world.  To realize such a "monorepo" world, you
> might be better off allowing a gitlink in the superproject to
> directly point at a tree object in a submodule repository (making
> them physically a single repository is an optional implementation
> detail I choose to ignore in this discussion).

Then the sharing between superprojects (e.g. send an Android's linux patch upstream or to another distro that also uses a superproject), becomes cumbersome as the commit messages are missing and potentially not specific to that subtree.