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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] clone: introduce clone.submoduleGitDir to relocate
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:48:07 -0700
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> 2. This ugliness complicates implementation of add/ rm/ mv, because
> each of them will have to know about this contrived path solution.

Why is that?  Can't they look at the gitfile or call some helper
(that happens to be part of the same binary)?