From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:19:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation: Say that submodule clones use a separate gitdirs.
Message-ID: <xmqqzjl1slcv.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <BEB30FB8-204C-4272-8F94-6210D96FB2CB@kellerfarm.com>

Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com> writes:

>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
>> index 21cb59a..ea837fd 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> ...
> Also, this file contains mostly high-level documentation, and this
> addition feels technical in nature.  Is there a location for more
> technical documentation?  Or, perhaps it can be reworded to sound
> less technical?

I tend to agree that the new paragraph looked somewhat out of place
and goes into a too low-level detail of the implementation.

The repository-layout documentation may be a better place for
readers to learn what lives where inside $GIT_DIR.