On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 08:37:14AM -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
> but cloning a remote repository (vs. checking out a local branch)
> seems to be baked into the submodule implementation.

Perhaps --local would set submodule.$name.url to '.', and ome
combination of GIT_WORK_TREE, GIT_DIR, and object references could be
used to setup and manage the local submodule.

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