Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I also waffled on whether we should ask the submodule code > whether it knows about a particular path. Technically: > > git config submodule.foo.path foo > git config submodule.foo.url git://... > git add foo > > is legal, but would still warn with this patch. Did you mean "git config -f .gitmodules" for the first two? If so, I think I agree that (1) it should be legal and (2) we should be able to add the check on top of this patch. Or do you really mean the case in which these are in .git/config?