Hi Felix, On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Felix Nairz wrote: > From what you are saying I can see that this expects as designed. It's > confusing in the submodule case, but I get you don't want to add extra > rules which slow down performance and mess with other people at the > same time. The "messing with other people" is the key point. There are most likely other users than just me who use the fact that `git -C sub/directory/ ...` works in a subdirectory of a checkout. Ciao, Johannes