From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:27:01 GMT Subject: Re: submodules' shortcomings, was Re: RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk Message-ID: <20100104222701.GE22872@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Besides, as long as there is enough reason to have out-of-Git alternative > solutions such as repo, submodules deserve to be 2nd-class citizens. If I didn't think I'd be shot by current submodule users, I'd offer to write a full replacement based around the current in repository format, but with sane features like we have in repo. Actually, that's why repo happened. I felt like submodules was already too frozen to accept a different approach. And another guy here thought XML might be a solution to a problem... :-| -- Shawn.