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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Saving space/network on common repos
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:33:47 -0800
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Craig Silverstein wrote:

> btw, just FYI, the scheme you lay out here doesn't actually work
> as-is.  The problem is the config file, which has an entry like:
>            worktree = ../../../mysubmodule
> This depends on the config file living in
> ./git/modules/mysubmodule/config.  But the proposed scheme moves the
> config file to mysubmodule/.git/config, and the relative path is
> broken.

*puzzled* Can you give a transcript illustrating this happening?

Submodules with .git directory within their worktree or under
.git/modules/ are both supposed to work.  And in either case, having
refs/ and objects/ as symlinks should work fine.  When git new-workdir
creates a new workdir, it has its own new and separate config file, so
I don't think that is the source of trouble.

Thanks,
Jonathan