Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] fetch --recurse-submodules: fetch unpopulated submodules

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 9, 2022, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4k46nae4.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <kl6l5yom6h4j.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com>

Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com> writes:

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> To clarify, does this opinion of "don't use config values that aren't
> copied into .git/config" extend to in-tree .gitmodules? Prior to this
> series, we always read the in-tree .gitmodules to get the config - the
> user does not need to copy the settings to .git/config, but we don't
> pick a commit to read .gitmodules from.

I think we do, but I also think it was a huge mistake to allow repository data to directly affect the behaviour of local checkout.

Fixing that is most likely outside the scope of this series, though.

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