> The consistency I was referring to is merely in the mechanism used to > deal with .gitmodules: by always using "submodule--helper config". > > As a side argument: in some previous discussion Stefan mentioned the > possibility that, in the future, he may be interested to explore > different locations for submodules configuration, like a special ref, > to prevent .gitmodules from being in the working tree at all, not even > for writing submodule configuration. > > Having an opaque "stage submodule configuration" operation would > prepare for that too, but as I said this is not my immediate goal. > Thanks for demonstrating that this will be easy to achieve in the future! > Having said that I can drop patches 06/07 if this can help moving things > forward; or if I had some success in convincing you I can improve the > user interface (any advice?) and the commit message. > I think dropping the patches would be a good idea, given that this is not your immediate goal. Thanks, Stefan
