Jens Lehmann <jens.lehm...@web.de> writes: > Not inside the submodule, me thinks they only make sense in the > superproject (that's why we clean the environment before working > inside the submodule).
Yes, that is fundamental and the only sane behaviour that comes from what submodules are. They are free-standing projects. Not clearing these environments when Git recurses into submodule was simply a bug (the original bug was that we added recursion without thinking these things through). Hence... > But setting the superproject's GIT_WORK_TREE > to something else won't work for an already initialized submodule, ... if you point the _root_ of the toplevel superproject with GIT_WORK_TREE (and the repository of the superproject with GIT_DIR), and chdir into one of its submodule's working tree, we shouldn't say $GIT_WORK_TREE/$smpath is the submodule world. That will make it impossible to work only on submodules by setting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at its root level (and the submodule repository with GIT_DIR). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
