In commit e01105 Linus introduced gitlinks to update-index. He explains
that he thinks it is not the right thing to replace a gitlink with
something else.
That commit is from the very first beginnings of submodule support.
Since then we have gotten a lot closer to being able to remove a
submodule without losing its history. This check prevents such a use
case, so I think this assumption has changed.
Additionally in the git add codepath we do not have such a check, so for
consistency reasons I think removing this check is the correct thing to
do.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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