Re: git submodules and commit

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:03:41PM +0100, Nigel Magnay wrote:
> - All the technical capability is there, it's just the porcelain
> that's causing the friction.
> then
>  would this not seem to be an area that could be improved? Even if it
> were an optional mode of working?

So, were there already any patches posted to add such a functionality
that were rejected? If not, apparently noone cared _enough_, yet. ;-)
You may be the first!

I don't know if there are any _present_ "free developers" willing to
pick up this task now.  For many (most?) Git developers, submodules
simply aren't a priority.  For me, they actually currently are, but I
probably won't want to use them in your way either (even though I can
agree that your sentiments are valid), so I will personally invest my
time in doing other things than figuring out the precise semantics
these operations should have etc.

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