From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:59:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I think Heiko and Jens's (by the way, why aren't they on the Cc:
> list when this topic is clearly discussing submodules?  Don't we
> want to learn how the current submodule subsystem is used to solve
> what real-world problems?) .gitmodules updates is exactly going in
> that direction.

Because it's pointless.  We're not discussing a git-submodule
alternative.  We're discussing how to fix git-core so that
git-submodule becomes much simpler; to the extent that it will be
unnecessary soon.

git-submodule is years of hard work and it can do a limited version of
floating with great difficulty.  Mine is two days of work, and can
already do true floating submodules.  What is going on?