Re: [PATCH 2/7] git-submodule: Extract absolute_url & move absolute url logic to module_clone

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

> I just want to unify the behaviour of handling relative url.
>
> 'git submodule add'  treats './foo' and 'foo' as different urls. The
> 1st one is relative to remote.origin.url, while the 2nd one is
> relative the current directory. I think this kind of behaviour is
> better for submodules, so i unify the handling of relative urls as
> this.
>
> With this kind of behaviour, i can set 'submodule.foo.url=./foo' in
> .gitmodules or $GIT_DIR/config. And when remote.origin.url changes, i
> have not to change submodule.foo.url if the super project and
> submodule foo are always located on the same central host.

Please have that kind of justification in the proposed commit log message.
When these changes are made into history, people cannot ask you questions
like I did and expect the history to produce such answer on demand ;-)