From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:00:04 GMT
Subject: Re: url.<base>.insteadOf vs. submodules
Message-ID: <E1cgXSe-0007jp-QI@mylo.jdl.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbmtvdj7p.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

So, like, Junio C Hamano said:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> 
> > Do we want to invent a special value for url.*.insteadOf to mean
> >   "look up in superproject, so I don't have to keep
> >   a copy that may get stale" ?
> 
> My gut feeling is that we should do the selective/filtered include
> Peff mentioned when a repository is known to be used as a submodule
> of somebody else.

Does the management of these submodue-related config values
become easier if, instead of placing them in .config, we
place them in a git/.context file?

jdl