Re: Would it be possible to add an option to disable validating submodule paths?

> Since this is a defense-in-depth change and it seems to have broken a
> reasonable workflow, I think adding a config option for this would be
> reasonable.  We've recently had some discussions on trying to limit the
> defense-in-depth measures we implement on the security list in the
> interests of allowing better discussion and feedback on the main list
> and avoiding regressions in people's workflows, and I think your email
> lends support to that approach.

> I'm not presently planning to add such an option, but it shouldn't be
> too hard to add a global variable for that (or maybe something under
> struct repository) that's updated when parsing config, and then check it
> in `validate_submodule_path`.  We'd need docs for that option as well,
> but that would probably be it if someone wanted to do so.