Am 11.03.2019 um 12:58 schrieb Duy Nguyen: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:48 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> And AFAIK there is no good way to >> modify the submodule-provided content as part of the build. Why do we >> even have the submodule again? ;P > > Because of dogfooding of course. This is an interesting use case > though. I wonder if people often want to "patch" submodules like this > (and what we could do if that's the case) I usually do the following: - Fork the sub-project - Add a branch with my proposed patches - Update the URL and the commit of the submodule in the super-project This of course requires all users to do git submodule sync which is a bit incovenient, but works.
