> 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. > That's cool. I was guessing it might be the case (or alternatively that someone might say 'yeah, but it's 25% of the way there'); my original query was also one of an offer of help ;-) My guess though is that the core-devs have much more connected neural pathways at thinking about the problems around the edge cases to be able to give warnings of 'there be dragons'! Nigel -- 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
