From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:07:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories
Message-ID: <xmqqh8jugxk4.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180816023446.GA127655@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> So it would be nice, for future-proofing, if we can change the naming
> scheme later.
> ...
> All at the cost of recording a little configuration somewhere.  If we
> want to decrease the configuration, we can avoid recording it there in
> the easy cases (e.g. when name == gitdirname).  That's "just" an
> optimization.
>
> And then we have the ability later to handle all the edge cases we
> haven't handled yet today:
>
> - sharding when the number of submodules is too large
> - case-insensitive filesystems
> - path name length limits
> - different sets of filesystem-special characters
>
> Sane?

Yup.