Extending Git without breaking it

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Three patch series propose concrete, reviewable changes: fix submodule path collisions by encode submodule names (URL‑style encoding extended to handle case insensitivity, configurable per repo), place new repos under a new submodules directory alongside legacy modules to avoid immediate breakage, and modernize hooks by landing a unified hook API is parallel by design (hook.h) then adding stdin/stdout collating and a config-driven hooks list with opt-in parallel hooks to avoid surprising races; early patch breaks Windows/Mac builds and a 500+ message thread documents tradeoffs.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:23Git submodule name encoding
3. 6:02Modernizing Git hooks
4. 12:08Backward compatibility risks
5. 12:49Q&A

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