Hi Ram, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > In my opinion, > .gitmodules is a wart that needs to be done away with: it should _not_ > be on the filesystem, just like a commit object isn't on the > filesystem. What do you think of .gitignore and .gitattributes? Should they be somewhere other than the filesystem as well? [...] > What I still fail to understand is why you keep mentioning > work-in-progress. You've had five years in which you haven't been > able to do things that I did in two days. I don't think Jens had any obligation to work on submodules and nothing else for the last five years. ;-) If you end up convincing others that your tools are worth working on and those tools pleasantly take care of the same workflows that submodules do, then I imagine people will be happy to migrate. Speaking only for myself, I actually prefer the submodule UI, despite not being thrilled with the single-.gitmodules-file-at-the-root-of-the-worktree feature. So I will not be working on your proposed redesign, unless it evolves enough to be as pleasant a UI as (the long proposed UI of) submodules. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- 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