On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think I should mention one aspect of what we're doing, which is that a lot
> of our submodules are based on external code, and that we occasionally need
> to modify or customize some of that code. So it's quite nice for us to
> maintain private git mirrors of the external repos, with our own private
> branches that contain our modifications. Although we want to get much of our
> changes incorporated into the upstream code bases, upstream release cycles
> are rarely in sync with ours.
THIS.
This is why I always thought that submodules absolutely have to be
commits, not trees. It's why the git submodule data structures are
done the way they are. Anything that makes the submodule just a tree
is fundamentally broken, I think.
That said, I'm not competent to comment on the actual user interface
issues. I can well believe that git-subtree has a nicer interface.
Linus
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