> [...] all good reasons; ship it :-) > All at the cost of recording a little configuration somewhere. If we > want to decrease the configuration, we can avoid recording it there in > the easy cases (e.g. when name == gitdirname). That's "just" an > optimization. Sounds good, but gerrit for example would not take advantage of such optimisation as they have slashes in their submodules. :-( I wonder if we can optimize further and keep slashes if there is no conflict (as then name == gitdirname, so it can be optimized). > And then we have the ability later to handle all the edge cases we > haven't handled yet today: > > - sharding when the number of submodules is too large > - case-insensitive filesystems > - path name length limits > - different sets of filesystem-special characters > > Sane? I'll keep thinking about it. FYI: the reduction in configuration was just sent out. Thanks, Stefan
