John Keeping wrote: > I do. I quite often use "git add -p" to sort things out and submodules > currently fit into that seamlessly: I can add the submodule and then > wait until later to commit it, without needing to either clone and > remember to "submodule add" later or commit and play with rebase. > > Losing the ability to do that is a major usability regression as far as > I'm concerned. I didn't realize people cared so deeply about this. Sure, we can emulate it: keeping the information in .git/link-specs/ doesn't sound like a bad idea. While it may feel like a hack, I think it's the right approach if we want to support non-fs-backed objects in our tree. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html