Hi, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Yep, if you want to keep track of the state of a bunch of repos over > time, submodules are not so bad[*]. A kind person pointed out that I left out a footnote. I think all I had been planning to say is that, roughly speaking, submodules are about[1] saying that a specific commit is known to work well with the rest of the code. A supermodule like the one discussed in [2] is only likely to be useful if you are interested in what historical combinations of repositories were published and meant to work well together. Ciao, Jonathan [1] e.g., http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/27803/focus=27830 [2] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-September/001966.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html