Re: Adding nested repository with slash adds files instead of gitlink

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 8, 2024, 16:35 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqed6zht04.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <s5wr0azfeh9.fsf@catalyst.net.nz>

Phil Sainty <phil@catalyst.net.nz> writes:

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>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:55 PM Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:39 AM Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info> wrote:
>> > > What this is about that when doing `git add path/` (with trailing /),
>> >
>> > This is what I was referring to. If you search for 'Fake Submodules',
>> > you'll see that some people were/are intentionally using this instead of
>> > subtrees or submodules. Unfortunately the original article [1] seems to
>> > be dead, but searching url in the mailing list archives leads to some
>> > additional discussion on the subject [2,3].
>>
>> Abusing a long standing bug does not make it a feature. I'm not
>> opposed to having a new option to keep that behavior, but it should
>> not be the default. If you use it that way, you're on your own.
>
> Was such an option ever worked on?

No.

I do not recall hearing anybody who have been active in the development community saying anything good about such an option. For the past 6 or so years, nobody who actively works on git thought it was an interesting and/or useful thing to work on.

I cannot quite say that they thought that it is actively a bad idea to offer such an option, though.