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

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 8, 2013, 19:54 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0npHgsf_TyjrMRJdcT-twg_jRXOHtoNpmX+2XNeLq=ZAQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk3ocx0qq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Does git diff/ commit/ add/ rm or any other command you can think of
>> rely on a special file in the worktree (aka .gitmodules) to be checked
>> out?
>
> Try "git add foo~" with usual suspect in .gitignore ;-)

First, it's not a hard requirement: in the worst case, git add will add the file even without a -f. Second, I've already argued about how I think this is the right design: What part of that do you disagree with? What alternate design do you propose?

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