From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 01:24:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] implement fetching of moved submodules
Message-ID: <xmqqa813vjfk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171006222544.GA26642@sandbox>

Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:

> So the thing here is: If we want to make sure that we stay backwards
> compatible by supporting the setup with gitlinks without configuration.
> Then we also should keep tests around that have the plain manual setup
> without .gitmodules files. Just something, I think, we should keep in
> mind.
>
> Apart from the tests nothing has been added in this iteration. Since I
> finally have a working test now I will continue with reviving the
> fallback to paths.

Thanks for an update.