On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Andrew Straw <straw...@astraw.com> wrote: > We could also make a meta repository that uses git submodules (somewhat akin > to svn externals).
I have to confess that I first heard of git submodules when you first mentioned them on this list a while ago, but a reasonable amount of reading left me with the feeling that it was far more git-fu than I was willing to handle for everyday work. They seemed like a fairly complex system, with a very nasty set of failure modes (easy to make mistakes having serious consequences). I say this as the guy who's been raving about git to anyone who won't shut me up, but git submodules seemed just a tad much. Maybe I just didn't find the right explanation, or it was my natural slowness, but I found all the descriptions to be confusing, with lots of moving parts and many things to remember carefully. The tags approach is certainly simple-minded, but it seemed easy enough and something that one or two shell scripts would turn into mindless one-liners in day-to-day practice, I think. Glad to have you around again :) Cheers, f ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
