Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules

> On Thursday 24 May 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 24 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > 
> > > Why does this have to be out-of-tree and unversioned to begin
> > > with?
> > 
> > I _really_ think that the right approach is to
> > 
> >  - have the submodules information under version control (and I'd 
> >    personally call it the ".gitmodules" file, but whatever)
> > 
> >    This gives you the defaults, and the ability to change them.
> 
> Sorry to repeat the obvious.
> 
> I assume you talk about a versioned .gitmodules file tied to the
> superproject history, and any fetch/pull would look into this
> file from the current working directory to lookup the default URL.
> 
> Wouldn't this have the problem that when you check out an old
> revision of the superproject you get out-of-date URLs, so that
> a fetch does not work (without local overrides)?