On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 10:52:57PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > During the linux packaging BoF at DebConf, Ben asked for usefull > upstream source handling. No compeling ones were mentioned. > > Some years ago (yes, years), I proposed some schema based on submodules, > but never got around to actually implement it. I finally managed to do > an initial implementation. It currently lives in the linux.git in > branch waldi/submodule.
shouldn't one use subtrees these days and not submodules. submodules only live in contrib. subtrees got merged in main git. -- maks