From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:53:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] clone: introduce clone.submoduleGitDir to relocate $GITDIR
Message-ID: <CALkWK0kw69rMveDXpGEvV=fGxiQ7JoT_JE9ZU5cor0xD=BUbFQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8D-5x5HXgpr2hHUHee6jcfj3++b961sJB_aKTZC1ZS+tw@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen wrote:
> What if I clone a repo then realize it was a mistake and remove it?
> With current clone, a "rm -rf" would do. With this, I'll need to
> figure out which subdir in the top .git contains the repo I want to
> remove. I'm not sure how "git submodule" handles this case though
> (i.e. total submodule ignorant speaking..)

Currently, submodules relocate the GITDIR of submodules to
.git/modules.  So, my proposed patch doesn't make the situation any
worse.  In fact, it improves the situation because you're guaranteed
that all your GITDIRs will be in ~/bare (or whatever your
core.submoduleGitDir is), as opposed to a complex path in .git/modules
of your containing superproject.