Re: Composing git repositories

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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So you have to stash it somewhere.  We could have made it to move
them to $HOME/.safeplace or somewhere totally unrelated to the
superproject.  So in that sense, the repositories are *not* owned by
the superproject in any way.  However, you are working within the
context of the superproject on the submodule after all, and
somewhere under $GIT_DIR/ of the superorject is not too wrong a
place to use as such a safe place.

Thanks for the explanation.

What do you _exactly_ mean by that?  You understood why things are
arranged in that way, and no longer think that it is unnecessary,
ugly and unwieldy to stash the real copy of $GIT_DIR of submodules
away from their working trees and store them inside $GIT_DIR/modules
of the superproject?

The paths in .git/modules are unnecessary ugly and unwieldy,
especially in the case of multiple levels of nesting...