[chiefalchemist]

Effective? Yes. Intuitive? Not so much so.

Your hacks are certainly worth exploring. But they are also solutions to why other people get pickled. Good for you. Not so for them.

I'd be curious to know if you use the CL or a UI-based git tool? It would seem to me - once you get to the necessity / complexity of something that entails submodules - seeing would be believing. Trying to juggle a detailed picture in your head, __and write good code__, __and get your git commands right__ is not exactly a recipe for success.

In many ways git is a great tool. But in the ways it is not expose its Achilles heel as we edge up on the second decade of the 21st century.

p.s. thx for sharing. I'm going to see about using your approaches.