Re: RFC/Discussion - Submodule UX Improvements

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2021, 05:22 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0Ct8NofMdds=w0k1-jjX638L6QJQEJWVxqJ6ZPSoJUjg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YHofmWcIAidkvJiD@google.com>

Hi Emily,

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 1:39 AM Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> wrote:

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> Hi folks,
>
> As hinted by a couple recent patches, I'm planning on some pretty big submodule
> work over the next 6 months or so - and Ævar pointed out to me in
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/87v98p17im.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com that I probably
> should share some of those plans ahead of time. :) So attached is a lightly
> modified version of the doc that we've been working on internally at Google,
> focusing on what we think would be an ideal submodule workflow.

Thanks for sharing this doc! My main concern with this is that we are likely to have a GSoC student working soon on finishing to port `git submodule` to C code. And I wonder how that would interact with your work.