Re: [RFC PATCH v2 06/12] submodule--helper: add a '--stage' option to the 'config' sub command

The consistency I was referring to is merely in the mechanism used to
deal with .gitmodules: by always using "submodule--helper config".

As a side argument: in some previous discussion Stefan mentioned the
possibility that, in the future, he may be interested to explore
different locations for submodules configuration, like a special ref,
to prevent .gitmodules from being in the working tree at all, not even
for writing submodule configuration.

Having an opaque "stage submodule configuration" operation would
prepare for that too, but as I said this is not my immediate goal.

Thanks for demonstrating that this will be easy to achieve in the future!

Having said that I can drop patches 06/07 if this can help moving things
forward; or if I had some success in convincing you I can improve the
user interface (any advice?) and the commit message.

I think dropping the patches would be a good idea,
given that this is not your immediate goal.

Thanks,
Stefan