From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:36:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposal: Write git subtree info to .git/config
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In-Reply-To: <CAJ2ZDL+HuBCv_xJCXEBb3Pex-qt86ocEX9yu=uV+CzdvqwECDA@mail.gmail.com>

John Butterfield <johnb003@gmail.com> writes:

> Has there been any talk about adding a stub for git subtrees in .git/config?

I do not think so, and that is probably for a good reason.

A subtree biding can change over time, but .git/config is about
recording information that do not change depending on what tree you
are looking at, so there is an impedance mismatch---storing that
information in .git/config is probably a wrong way to go about it.

It might help to keep track of "In this tree, the tip of that other
history is bound as a subtree at this path", which means that
information more naturally belongs to each tree, I would think.