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

Linus Torvalds wrote:

So there's a very real issue where a repository with submodules still 
"works", even with a .gitmodules file that is totally scrogged and doesn't 
have the right information (yet), it's just that it may simply not be able 
to do all the operations because it cannot figure out where to pull 
missing subproject data from etc..
  

Whoa... "missing" subproject data?

Surely, unless you're doing lightweight/shallow clones, if you have a
gitlink you've also got the dependent repository? Otherwise the
reachability rule will be broken.

Sam.