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Subject: Re: Submodule regression in 2.14?
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> As long as we are talking about idealized future world (well, at
> least an idea of somebody's "ideal", not necessarily shared by
> everybody), I wonder if there is even any need to have commits in
> submodules in such a world.  To realize such a "monorepo" world, you
> might be better off allowing a gitlink in the superproject to
> directly point at a tree object in a submodule repository (making
> them physically a single repository is an optional implementation
> detail I choose to ignore in this discussion).

Then the sharing between superprojects (e.g. send an Android's linux
patch upstream or to another distro that also uses a superproject),
becomes cumbersome as the commit messages are missing and
potentially not specific to that subtree.