Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:

Does git diff/ commit/ add/ rm or any other command you can think of
rely on a special file in the worktree (aka .gitmodules) to be checked
out?

Try "git add foo~" with usual suspect in .gitignore ;-)

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Does git diff/ commit/ add/ rm or any other command you can think of
rely on a special file in the worktree (aka .gitmodules) to be checked
out?

Try "git add foo~" with usual suspect in .gitignore ;-)

First, it's not a hard requirement: in the worst case, git add will
add the file even without a -f.  Second, I've already argued about how
I think this is the right design: What part of that do you disagree
with?  What alternate design do you propose?