From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:44:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gitfaq: add advice on monorepos
Message-ID: <48d2b707-3337-8232-af19-dc6170e12313@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <YXCWigr6TovYXgbb@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

Hi Brian,
On 20/10/2021 23:22, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2021-10-20 at 14:11:09, Philip Oakley wrote:
>> Does this need some comparison, or link, with sub-module methods and
>> issues? Such as the nested sub-module problem, the distinction between
>> active sub-modules and quiescent sub-modules (e.g. libraries Vx.y.z)?
> I don't think it does.  Some projects choose to use many repositories
> with submodules, and some use many repositories without submodules.  At
> work, we do the latter, and it tends to work just fine.

To clarify, my comment was with regard to the complementary discussions
about _choice_ of repo types, rather than mono-repo and other
post-choice issues. Possibly, part of such a discussion on choice of
repo-type, could include the potential slippery slope between the
different uses of sub-modules.

I feel a lot of the difficult sub-module discussion are because we don't
have a common terminology for the different (mental) models of
sub-module use, their benefits and problems.
--
Philip