On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:03:41PM +0100, Nigel Magnay wrote: > - All the technical capability is there, it's just the porcelain > that's causing the friction. > then > would this not seem to be an area that could be improved? Even if it > were an optional mode of working? So, were there already any patches posted to add such a functionality that were rejected? If not, apparently noone cared _enough_, yet. ;-) You may be the first! I don't know if there are any _present_ "free developers" willing to pick up this task now. For many (most?) Git developers, submodules simply aren't a priority. For me, they actually currently are, but I probably won't want to use them in your way either (even though I can agree that your sentiments are valid), so I will personally invest my time in doing other things than figuring out the precise semantics these operations should have etc. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. -- A. Pierce -- 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
