Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 8, 2013, 11:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=LW1850irkcJDkdMwKRf8-QrDotRY-ciuxy7KiY1kkyg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8CAW1h4rAOK_2+EAFEL28CKeqf4vqROsLByjZaMU3D-ow@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen wrote:

> Probably off-topic, but I'm starting to find ".gitignore can be found
> in every directory" a burden to day-to-day git operations. So imo it's
> not done right entirely ;-)

Or are you saying it's hard to implement elegantly and efficiently in git-core? If so, I agree wholeheartedly. I'm not yet sure what to do about the situation.

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