It's an enhancement feature to handle submodules to manage data with associated its projects.

I want git-annex could detect submodule paths changed on disks which was cause by mv or file explorer. If user uses git-annex-assist daemon or git-annex-assist command directly after mv command, The submodules would be totally broken.

Currently, the workaround is just use git-mv on each submodules manually.

I made a testing shell script for this.

```shell

!/bin/bash

This is test script for submodule path changing.

set -e

USE_GIT_MV=false # USE_GIT_MV=true works correctly cd /tmp/ mkdir -p test_sub/{archive/projects,projects/2023_01_personal_some_cool_project,resources} cd test_sub git init git annex init git annex version cd projects/2023_01_personal_some_cool_project

echo NOTE: Add some data and sub-projects for testing touch README.md 01_dataset_lists.csv 09_reports.md git submodule add https://github.com/Lykos153/git-annex-remote-googledrive.git git submodule add https://github.com/alpernebbi/git-annex-adapter.git git submodule status # check it git annex assist echo

echo NOTE: I think that the projects are need to be changed "01_Projects" for sorting order. cd /tmp/test_sub if $USE_GIT_MV; then git mv projects 01_Projects else # NOTE: Just rename file makes submodules broken. directory depth is same mv projects 01_Projects ( cd 01_Projects/2023_01_personal_some_cool_project/git-annex-adapter git status # it shows 'No such file or directory' ) fi git submodule status # check it git annex assist echo

echo NOTE: I want to change some submodule name is for referencing just for work. cd /tmp/test_sub/01_Projects/2023_01_personal_some_cool_project if $USE_GIT_MV; then git mv git-annex-adapter ref_sample_adapter_code else # NOTE: Just rename file makes submodules broken. directory depth is same mv git-annex-adapter ref_sample_adapter_code fi git submodule status # check it git annex assist echo

echo NOTE: Now, i want to archive my old projects. cd /tmp/test_sub if $USE_GIT_MV; then git mv 01_Projects/2023_01_personal_some_cool_project archive/projects/2023_01_personal_some_cool_project else # NOTE: Just rename file makes submodules broken. directory depth is changed mv 01_Projects/2023_01_personal_some_cool_project archive/projects/2023_01_personal_some_cool_project fi git submodule status # check it git annex assist echo

echo test done ``

wontfix as it is out of scope --Joey`