Christian Couder wrote: > What if instead of a git submodule I want to have an hg, or, God/Linus/deity > forbid, an SVN submodule, inside my git worktree? > What if I just want a very big movie or .tgz downloaded from somewhere else? Since the link object is rooted to the tree, it's impossible to have anything but a working copy in the link directory. How can I have a non-git-worktree link directory without breaking checkout? I think that making it too generic will make the entire submodule experience suffer, because the implementation must be coded according to the lowest-common-denominator. This is the mistake that the tool mr makes: since it's so generic, it can't provide very powerful functionality specifically for git repositories. I'll try to think of something else. -- 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