Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] Make submodules work if .gitmodules is not checked out

On Fri, Aug 24 2018, Antonio Ospite wrote: > this series teaches git to try and read the .gitmodules file from the > index (:.gitmodules) and the current branch (HEAD:.gitmodules) when it > is not readily available in the working tree. FWIW I didn't read any of the earlier series's, and I'm

[PATCH v4 0/9] Make submodules work if .gitmodules is not checked out

Hi, this series teaches git to try and read the .gitmodules file from the index (:.gitmodules) and the current branch (HEAD:.gitmodules) when it is not readily available in the working tree. This can be used, together with sparse checkouts, to enable submodule usage with programs like vcsh[1]