Daniel Friesen wrote: > However a key thing to note is that git submodules aren't anything > really special. Sure, they're integrated into git, but the only real > special feature about them is that you can target a specific commit > id... and heck, we don't even want that feature, that's the whole reason > it's problematic. Git submodules don't optimize cloning the repo, it > doesn't store any of the remote data in the repo, so whether you use a > submodule or not the actual task of getting those extension repos is > still that of cloning each and every one of those remote repos > individually.
Knowing how git just stores everything in files, it's likely that submodules are just a plain text list inside a file. So it would be easy to script an update to the list on a post-commit hook. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
