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From: "Rafael Ascensão" <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Cc: hvoigt@hvoigt.net, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Adding nested repository with slash adds files instead of gitlink
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:52:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACUQV5-ynAv0p9MCRt0Yv9E6x+UN5z4uuaPOt1GpsK6A6MF2wQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180620043956.GC6958@alpha>

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:39 AM Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info> wrote:
>
> What this is about that when doing `git add path/` (with trailing /),
>

This is what I was referring to. If you search for 'Fake Submodules',
you'll see that some people were/are intentionally using this instead of
subtrees or submodules. Unfortunately the original article [1] seems to
be dead, but searching url in the mailing list archives leads to some
additional discussion on the subject [2,3].


[1]:http://debuggable.com/posts/git-fake-submodules:4b563ee4-f3cc-4061-967e-0e48cbdd56cb
[2]:https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqy47o6q71.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/
[3]:https://public-inbox.org/git/CAGZ79kZofg3jS+g0weTdco+PGo_p-_Hd-NScZ=q2UfB7tF2GPA@mail.gmail.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-20 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-18 11:19 Adding nested repository with slash adds files instead of gitlink Heiko Voigt
2018-06-18 15:06 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-18 18:12   ` Brandon Williams
2018-06-19 10:36     ` Heiko Voigt
2018-06-19 15:16       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-19 15:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-19 16:11           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-19 16:09         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-19 16:20           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-18 15:55 ` Kevin Daudt
2018-06-19 10:27   ` Heiko Voigt
2018-06-19 22:29     ` Rafael Ascensão
2018-06-20  4:39       ` Kevin Daudt
2018-06-20 11:52         ` Rafael Ascensão [this message]
2018-06-20 14:57           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-20 16:21             ` Rafael Ascensão

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