Jim Hester

We can't simply use `git submodule update --init --recursive`, the zip archives from GitHub are not actually git repositories (they don't have a `.git` directory at all). If the specific...

`install_github()` does not rely on _any_ git client, external or git2r. For `install_git()` we could potentially do this for the external git client.

How would this handle backwards compatibility? I think there are a fair number of instances of people using subdirectories on GitHub. Or would GitHub continue to use `/` for subdirectories,...

Conversely, is there another remote type that has this conflict other than GitLab?

Does the bitbucket repo perhaps depend on a GitHub package (in the `Remotes` field?)

I think something like this would do what you want. ```r install_remotes2

Hi, if you are still planning on working on this and it is still a WIP please [convert it to a draft PR](https://github.blog/changelog/2020-04-08-convert-pull-request-to-draft/), to make it clear where it stands.

Could you see if https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/pull/305 fixes your issue, I think it may.

I think this is because recommended packages like stats are not on CRAN (and therefore not in the CRAN GitHub mirror). They would need to be special cased.

If you want wider tibbles there is already a custom option for that, `tibble.width`. I don't if there is a great alternative for regular data frames, but you could always...