On 1/15/15 10:27 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:08:14PM +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Important thing here is that starting with git 1.8.2 it is possible to
set submodule to track head of remote branch instead of fixed commit
hash - which fixes the maintenance issue and is exactly the thing
needed for meta-dlang repo.
Very nice!! I wasn't aware of that... I must be behind the times. :-P
@Andrei: I think this nullifies about 50% of the naysayers' arguments
against git submodules. Another issue is also that people used git
submodules for things it wasn't intended for, and got burned as a
result. Not really the fault of the feature. There *are* still some
things to be desired, though, so it's not quite perfect yet. But it
should be a lot more usable than before.
I'd be okay with reorganizing our repos as a module with the submodules
dmd, druntime, phobos, and tools. For that we'd need a champion who is
willing to try it, experiment with it (e.g. in a separate repo),
demonstrate its advantages and discuss its disadvantages, and carry the
actual porting work.
It seems to me we'd need to derive a few more advantages than solving
the particular matter I opened this thread with.
Andrei
