On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:29:02PM +0100, Rafael Ascensão wrote:

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:28 AM Heiko Voigt [off-list ref] wrote:

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Interesting and nobody complained to the mailinglist?

For reference this was sometimes called "Fake Submodules" online.

Do you refer to cloning a repository in another repository, and running
`git add path` (no trailing /) so that a gitlink is created without a
.gitmodules file? Because that's not what Heiko is referring to.

What this is about that when doing `git add path/` (with trailing /),
git will add the files of the cloned repository to the parent repo, and
basically ignore that it's another repository.

And I guess no one complained because it looked like a feature rather
than a bug.

Kevin