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Subject: Re: [RFC] Fourth round of support for cloning submodules
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"Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:

> I think the whole point of the 'remote config' stuff is to get an
> unversioned/out-of-tree .gitmodules file, right?

Why does this have to be out-of-tree and unversioned to begin
with?

When you are bootstrapping, you will start by a fetch/clone of
the superproject.  Why can't that tree contain necessary
information that is relevant to the superproject in question?

Isn't the information about which subprojects are used by the
superproject specific to each superproject, and also specific to
each version of the superproject (as a superproject can start
using more projects than it did before)?