On 9 Dec 2012, Timothy Pearson verbalised:
> What I would really like to see in GIT is the ability to track submodule
> HEAD refs in a supermodule without needing to establish a ridiculously
> long commit history containing every submodule change.

I hate to ask this but... what harm is there in that? git doesn't get
harmed at all by very long histories. All you're storing is a few extra
hashes.

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