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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Composing git repositories
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Do you realize how difficult this is to implement?  We'll need to
> patch all the git commands to essentially do what we'd get for free if
> the submodule were a tree object instead of a commit object (although
> I'm not saying that's the Right thing to do).

What are you talking about?  Yes, of course I realize that recursing
over subprojects that are managed as separate git repositories
requires writing new code.  That's why people have started to write
such code.  They seem to think it's worth it.

Meanwhile others with different designs in mind have written other
tools.  Use cases even overlap a little, so they can compete.  That is
exactly as it should be.