Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This "default" value thing got me thinking in a different direction. We > could use a scheme like that to get names (and values) for submodules > that are missing from the .gitmodules file. If we decide that we need to > handle them. Yes, I suspect that would improve things quite a bit in a repository where it added a new submodule by filling the gap between the time when a gitlink is added and an entry in .gitmodules is added. The latter needs to happen if the result of the work done in that repository is pushed out elsewhere---otherwise it won't usable by other people.
