[drtse4]

This thread is a mess... and i'm not sure statements like this one "'git add' should not go past submodule boundaries. I should not be able to 'git add clayoven/' or 'git add clayoven/LICENSE'" are a good start. Gives a simplified description of what he want to do without going too in-depth about why that path was chosen and starts coding right away.

[tinco]

Why would he need to go in-depth about why that path was chosen, isn't it obvious? The workflow he proposes is miles better than how gitmodules is working now.

[drtse4]

Why? Simply to discuss it and evaluate alternatives that could be better. I'm referring to the solution he proposed not to the fact that git modules have a lot of space for improvement. "miles better" considering that we are talking about git modules it's not really that hard to devise.