Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> The only proposed change that seems to me to be impossible with the
>> current .gitmodules approach is the "submodule in a non-initialized
>> submodule" feature, but I've never seen anyone ask for that and it seems
>> likely to open a whole can of worms where the behaviour is likely to
>> vary with $PWD.  The current hierarchical approach provides sensible
>> encapsulation of repositories and is simple to understand: once you're
>> in a repository nothing above its root directory affects you.
>
> That can be implemented in the current submodule system too, fwiw.

And yes, it's going to be very ugly: I imagine special refs pointing
to blobs, or something like that.  Then again, what do end-users care
about?
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