On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, Jeff King wrote:
OpenWRT/LEDE have their core repo, and they pull from many other (unrelated)
projects into that repo (and then have 'feeds', which is
sort-of-like-submodules to pull in other software that's maintained
completely independently)
I think with submodules this should probably still work. If they are
pulling in with a subtree-ish strategy, then they'd convert the incoming
trees to the newhash format as part of that.
as I understand things, they have two categories of things
1. Feeds, which are completely independent, separate maintainers
2. core, which gets pulled into one repo, I don't know if they use submodules in
the process. I know that what downstream users see is a single repo.
I understand and agree with the idea of trying to converge rapidly. I'm just
looking at cases where this may be hard (or where there may be holdouts for
whatever reason)
David Lang