[RFC/PATCH 0/2] submodule: drop the top-level requirement

With the recent discussion, I wondered how hard it would be to add SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Yes to git-submodule.sh and it doesn't seem that bad.

Note that this series currently lacks both tests and documentation updates. Also I have made no attempt to change the output from any commands, so submodule paths are always printed relative to the top-level of the repository.

Consider this series a proof-of-concept, to see whether I'm on completely the wrong course.

John Keeping (2):
  rev-parse: add --filename-prefix option
  submodule: drop the top-level requirement

 builtin/rev-parse.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 git-submodule.sh    |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)