Phil Sainty <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:55 PM Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:39 AM Kevin Daudt <me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > What this is about that when doing `git add path/` (with trailing /), >> > >> > This is what I was referring to. If you search for 'Fake Submodules', >> > you'll see that some people were/are intentionally using this instead of >> > subtrees or submodules. Unfortunately the original article [1] seems to >> > be dead, but searching url in the mailing list archives leads to some >> > additional discussion on the subject [2,3]. >> >> Abusing a long standing bug does not make it a feature. I'm not >> opposed to having a new option to keep that behavior, but it should >> not be the default. If you use it that way, you're on your own. > > Was such an option ever worked on? No. I do not recall hearing anybody who have been active in the development community saying anything good about such an option. For the past 6 or so years, nobody who actively works on git thought it was an interesting and/or useful thing to work on. I cannot quite say that they thought that it is actively a bad idea to offer such an option, though.
