From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:30:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=Q-P-fGLmkoiV3_CJ43MNmFzpfkvFjNUwxB+zOsqTxmg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130407212342.GA19857@elie.Belkin>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> What's stopping the core object code of git parsing .gitmodules?

Nothing, except that it's perversely unnatural for object parsing code
to parse something outside the object store.

> What
> is the core object code?

parse_link_buffer(): the conventions have already been set by
parse_blob_buffer(), parse_tree_buffer() etc.

> How does this compare to other metadata
> files like .gitattributes and .gitignore?

.gitignore and .gitattributes are parsed in dir.c, where git "treats"
worktree paths.  It's quite nicely integrated.