From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:59:00 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Submodules are _directories_. Side note - you can do submodules other ways, but if you do, you'll almost certainly go crazy. You could, for example, make submodules be some kind of "union filesystem", where you allow overlapping trees. It's conceptually possible. It's also horribly horribly wrong, if only because I guarantee that you'll have so many problems with it that you will only end up with a mess that is even worse than "branches" in CVS.