On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:04 AM John <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can we get a repo for each major release that contains core, skins, and all
> extensions in a single checkout? Right now I am updating and with all of
> the sub modules, I am running into issues where I cant set a branch on the
> extensions/ repo for REL 1_27 and get all extensions as of that branching,
> Instead I am forced to go thru one by one and manually set it, if and only
> if a given extension has said branch set, otherwise I am out of luck.
>
> Getting everything together would cause a larger checkout, but keeps things
> together for those who want to pick and choose.
>
>
It's on my todo list to add all the extensions and skins that are bundled
in a release to the core release branch as submodules, just haven't gotten
around to it yet.

In addition to the problems/benefits you point out, it also means that the
extensions and skins would be included in the signed tags for each
release, aiding in reproducibility of a release.

-Chad
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