Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules

Sven Verdoolaege [off-list ref] writes:

I'm obviously not going to stop anyone from putting URLs in .gitmodules
and I can see that it would be useful in practice, but I still think
that it doesn't matter where the submodule was located at any
given point in history (from the point of view of the superproject).
It only matters where the submodule is located now.

You may be bisecting a problem and you may need to clone a submodule
for a point in history when the submodule was placed somewhere else.
(You may not have had a need to checkout the submodule before,
or it may simply not be used in the current version of the supermodule.)
So, I think it would still be useful to have an optional additional
out-of-tree mechanism of getting usable URLs if the URLs in .gitmodules
or your local config don't work.

I thought that was already solved in my original two-level
strawman and can naturally be extended to the three-level
strawman.  What am I missing?

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