From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 07:56:37 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #09; Tue, 29)
Message-ID: <536b38b55b7fc_4fa68b32eca@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <536B3259.1050602@gmail.com>

Chris Packham wrote:
> On 06/05/14 11:50, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > The same argument would apply to git-svn, git-p4, and git-cvsimport,
> > I would think.
> 
> A bit of a crazy suggestion and a little off-topic. Assuming maintainers
> can be found what about having these foreign vcs interfaces as
> submodules. That way they can be in Junio's tree as well as having their
> own release cycles. The same could apply to git-gui, gitk and gitweb. It
> would also be a chance to eat-our-own-dogfood with submodules.

If submodules were an integral part of Git that would be a possibility,
but they are more like a hack.

-- 
Felipe Contreras