Re: Intoducing the .git file (again)

> On Feb 17, 2008 11:20 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> >
> > > PPS: If included, the .git file should probably be used by 
> > > git-submodule to clone submodule repositories into something like 
> > > $GIT_DIR/submodules/<name>, as that would make local submodule 
> > > changes more resistant to dataloss due to checkout/reset in the 
> > > containing repository.
> >
> > I don't buy that argument.  For the moment, the submodules are 
> > self-contained repositories.  The superproject does not even have to 
> > have a single object contained in a submodule.  I'd try to keep that 
> > separation.
> 
> They would still be separated and self-contained repositories, but with 
> my suggestion the submodule repository would be moved out of the working 
> tree of the containing repository. Which I believe is a good thing, 
> especially when you switch from one branch in the containing repository 
> which had the submodule in './foo' to another branch where the submodule 
> is located in './lib/foo'.