Re: Submodules or similar for exercise/exam management

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2010, 23:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20101118234916.GB21621@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <7vsjyyb6ui.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:

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>>> 3) never need to be aware of repo boundaries or manipulate sub-repo
>>
>> I think that this requirement is the hardest for any solution I know
>> of or can imagine, as you hit these boundaries sooner or later either
>> when you want to commit, push and/or when you have to resolve merge
>> conflicts.
>
> Just a quick sanity check.  When this "requirement" makes sense, does the
> whole thing need to be a superproject with bunch of submodules, and why?

In this example: because the submodule represents individual questions that are used by multiple exams.

Another instance of the same (slightly uncomfortable :)) practice: suppose a certain chapter is part of multiple works I have published --- maybe in an article and a larger book. When working on the book:

 - I do not want to make changes to that chapter and forget to commit
   them.

 - After making changes to many chapters, I do not want the fuss of
   going from chapter to chapter and commiting them one by one.

 - I certainly do not want to publish a version of the book that
   "includes" versions of the chapters as dead links, so to speak.
   That is, when I publish the current version of the book, I want
   to publish the current version of all chapters, too.

 - When starting work on the book again after long absence, I would
   like to be able to see and have the chance to adopt changes to
   chapters made as part of this book and as part of others.

If I understand correctly.