From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 18:35:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 6/9] clone: implement optional references
Message-ID: <xmqqd1lhaiys.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbS1_DULjf8gPram+zNLe-xRShETotq+at+r7bmWrUyxA@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> Thinking about that we may want to not rely on such a hack,
> but make it clearer.

But that is far from sufficient, isn't it?

You'd need to bypass "not a local repository", "shallow" and "is
grafted" anyway, so in that sense, that hack is not doing much.
If modules/X (or modules/X/) does not exist, it won't pass these
checks, so burdening the readers with slash trickery is not really
worth their time.