From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:54:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules
Message-ID: <CALkWK0npHgsf_TyjrMRJdcT-twg_jRXOHtoNpmX+2XNeLq=ZAQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk3ocx0qq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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?