On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:39:21AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > but in the long run my goal > > for submodules is and always was: Make them behave as close to files as > > possible. And why should a 'git add submodule' not magically do > > everything it can to make submodules just work? I can look into a patch > > for that if people agree here... > > I'd love to see this implemented. I cc'd Josh (the author of git-series), who > may disagree with this, or has some good input how to go forward without > breaking git-series. git-series doesn't use the git-submodule command at all, nor does it construct series trees using git-add or any other git command-line tool; it constructs gitlinks directly. Most of the time, it doesn't even make sense to `git checkout` a series branch. Modifying commands like git-add and similar to automatically manage .gitmodules won't cause any issue at all, as long as git itself doesn't start rejecting or complaining about repositories that have gitlinks without a .gitmodules file. - Josh Triplett
