Re: git submodule vs GIT_WORK_TREE

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Declaring that a checked out submodule _must_ have its controlling
repository as ".git" at its root level, i.e. it should be accessible
without using GIT_WORK_TREE/GIT_DIR at all just like a normal Git
repository is, would be a clean way to avoid the issue altogether
and it still will allow the top-level superproject to be structured
in a funny way to require GIT_WORK_TREE/GIT_DIR to access it,

I fear this would make vcsh unable to support submodules, ever.

Then think of a workable alternative.  As it stands, I would have to
say that what vcsh tries to do with git is broken with respect to
submodules.

Just to avoid misunderstanding.  I didn't mean "vcsh and vcsh alone
is broken while other solutions work just fine".  What I meant was
"I agree with you that what vcsh tries to do is unworkable".