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. -- 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