How does this work when you are a toplevel developer and do not have the submodule cloned and checked out? Our code should treat having the submodule directory and not having it when there is a mode 160000 entry in the index equally likely. Cloning and checking-out is _not_ the norm (nor the exception). - 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