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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I however do not see the implementation detail of having (or not
> having) separate $GIT_DIR for component projects having anything to
> do with the goal of that ideal.

Yeah, I think the current gitlink-instead-of-full-git-dir-for-submodules
implementation that can allow "git rm" to remove a submodule and
"git checkout --recurse-submodules" to later revive it is good.