From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:17:27 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> The only proposed change that seems to me to be impossible with the >> current .gitmodules approach is the "submodule in a non-initialized >> submodule" feature, but I've never seen anyone ask for that and it seems >> likely to open a whole can of worms where the behaviour is likely to >> vary with $PWD. The current hierarchical approach provides sensible >> encapsulation of repositories and is simple to understand: once you're >> in a repository nothing above its root directory affects you. > > That can be implemented in the current submodule system too, fwiw. And yes, it's going to be very ugly: I imagine special refs pointing to blobs, or something like that. Then again, what do end-users care about?