Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > Correct. We don't want to force 'git submodule' into everyone's throat. > > By the way, the cases of with / without submodules are treated symmetrically > (transparently) in gitsub.sh (gnulib/top/gitsub.sh). I've switched to using > this helper script in my projects, so that I don't need to remember whether > I need to use submodule commands or not. > > The comments in this script also discuss the advantages vs. drawbacks of > using gnulib as a git submodule.
Thanks! Reading that re-inforced my preference to not use git submodules nor subcheckouts (although I didn't know about subcheckouts before, which seems nicer than git submodules). Having the gnulib git checkout be in a separate directory like ~/src/gnulib (or ~/src/gnulib-inetutils if I needed a particular checkout for one project I am working on) and point GNULIB_SRCDIR to it gives me full flexibility without complexity of managing subdirectories. /Simon
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