From: Jens Lehmann Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:59:44 GMT Subject: Re: Composing git repositories Message-ID: <515B38B0.2040705@web.de> In-Reply-To: Am 02.04.2013 20:35, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra: > Jens Lehmann wrote: >> But I think we recently learned to support that use case with >> submodules. I think there are two floating models: >> >> - Tracked: >> [...] >> >> - Untracked: >> Some people just want "the newest" tip of a branch checked out in >> the submodule and update that from time to time (I suspect this >> is because they are used to SVN externals, which I believe work >> that way). You throw away reproducibility, which I think is not >> good and not the way I expect Git to work. >> [...] > > Nope, it has nothing to do with SVN externals; I've never used them. > And no, all repositories aren't created equal. I should be able to > add in magit.git into my dotfiles repository without worrying about > which commits the other repositories were at a particular commit. If > my project depends on the bleeding edge of poppler and girarra, I > should always be able to tell what commits in each subproject the > build was passing in. In other words, I should be able to freely > mixed floating and fixed submodules. There's no reason for one to be > Right, and the other to be a shunned second-class citizen. But you can currently mix floating and fixed submodules, as each submodule can be configured differently. Or am I missing something here?