Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

quoted

Would it be nicer if .gitmodules were line-based to aid in merging?

I seriously doubt you'll ever be merging or changing this a lot. So I 
don't think it's a huge concern.

I think Andy's comment comes from our earlier discussion on the
other in-tree configuration, .gitattributes file.

We were talking about using in-tree .gitattributes for deciding
if we apply crlf to each paths and other things like which 3-way
file-level merge backend to apply, and need to make the system
gracefully degrade even when in-tree .gitattributes have
conflict markers during a merge.  And for that purpose, it is
certainly easier to arrange "pick each line, while ignoring <<<
or === or >>>, and if there are conflicting duplicates do
something sensible about them", if the file is line oriented.

But I do not think the .gitmodules thing needs that.  If we have
conflicting (or non-conflicting for that matter) submodule
moves, that's a _MAJOR_ project re-organization, and I do not
think we would even want to automatically descend into
submodules for merging or checking-out when we have such a
situation in the higher level project.