Re: git init --separate-git-dir does not update symbolic .git links for submodules

Looking for microproject ideas for GSoC. Would this issue be suitable as the microproject?

Thanks,
  Valery Tolstov

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Valery Tolstov <me@vtolstov.org> wrote:

It would be a good project, but not as 'micro' I would assume. ;) Why it is not a micro project:

To fix this issue we'd want to fix the .git link files recursively, i.e. nested submodules would also need fixing. And to recurse into submodules we normally spawn a child process.

So maybe the plan is as follow:
1) Add the functionality to builtin/submodule--helper.c
    it fixes just one submodule, given by name.
2) add an externally visible command in the same file
  See e.g. module_name (the function and the table
  at the very end of the file)
  (1) needs to call this command (see clone_submodule() in
    that file how to call further commands)

2) "git init --separate-git-dir ../test" would call the function
  in (1), which then recursively uses (2) to call (1) in nested
  submodules.

After thinking about it, it may be good for a micro project, as it is smaller than originally assumed. Specifically if you plan to look into submodules later on.

Thanks, Stefan