Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm obviously not going to stop anyone from putting URLs in .gitmodules > and I can see that it would be useful in practice, but I still think > that it doesn't matter where the submodule was located at any > given point in history (from the point of view of the superproject). > It only matters where the submodule is located now. > > You may be bisecting a problem and you may need to clone a submodule > for a point in history when the submodule was placed somewhere else. > (You may not have had a need to checkout the submodule before, > or it may simply not be used in the current version of the supermodule.) > So, I think it would still be useful to have an optional additional > out-of-tree mechanism of getting usable URLs if the URLs in .gitmodules > or your local config don't work. I thought that was already solved in my original two-level strawman and can naturally be extended to the three-level strawman. What am I missing? gmane=http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/ $gmane/47502 $gmane/47548 $gmane/47621 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
