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

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 4, 2013, 20:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0nS74ZiHkEk7uCg=yPB7m6FkmfmfU7vs7u-AENjPu-GCw@mail.gmail.com>
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Just take the link's buffer with you everywhere.  All you have to do
> is git edit-link <name> and paste the file's contents there, instead
> of opening .gitmodules directly in your editor.

On this. The buffer doesn't have to conform to a tight spec: we can just expose a .gitconfig-like buffer and reduce it to a tight spec before writing out.

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