Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > So it would be nice, for future-proofing, if we can change the naming > scheme later. > ... > 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. > > 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? Yup.
