From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:08:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules
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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.