Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> As long as we are talking about idealized future world (well, at >> least an idea of somebody's "ideal", not necessarily shared by >> everybody), I wonder if there is even any need to have commits in >> submodules in such a world. To realize such a "monorepo" world, you >> might be better off allowing a gitlink in the superproject to >> directly point at a tree object in a submodule repository (making >> them physically a single repository is an optional implementation >> detail I choose to ignore in this discussion). > > Then the sharing between superprojects (e.g. send an Android's linux > patch upstream or to another distro that also uses a superproject), > becomes cumbersome as the commit messages are missing and > potentially not specific to that subtree. Indeed. That is a problem "git commit --recurse-submodules" has. Socratic method seem to have worked well to convince you that it is not necessarily a good idea to make submodules "just like a tree".
