Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] git submodule: Fix adding of submodules at paths with ./, .. and //

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:58:47 +0100

Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 03.03.2009 15:29:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 
>> Make 'git submodule add' normalize the submodule path in the
>> same way as 'git ls-files' does, so that 'git submodule init' looks up
>> the information in .gitmodules with the same key under which 'git
>> submodule add' stores it.
>>
>> This fixes 4 known breakages.
> 
> Maybe it is time to turn this into a builtin?

Uhm, you mean all of submodule or just the normalize part? Isn't git
submodule up for some rewriting (.gitmodule...) anyways?

I suggest applying the tests and fix before Bob the In-Builder rolls in.
And no, Bob's not my alter ego...

Michael