From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:04:26 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Christian Couder wrote: > What if instead of a git submodule I want to have an hg, or, God/Linus/deity > forbid, an SVN submodule, inside my git worktree? > What if I just want a very big movie or .tgz downloaded from somewhere else? Since the link object is rooted to the tree, it's impossible to have anything but a working copy in the link directory. How can I have a non-git-worktree link directory without breaking checkout? I think that making it too generic will make the entire submodule experience suffer, because the implementation must be coded according to the lowest-common-denominator. This is the mistake that the tool mr makes: since it's so generic, it can't provide very powerful functionality specifically for git repositories. I'll try to think of something else.