Anyone considering git submodules should definitely take a look at git subtrees and see if that solution is more appropriate for the situation in question.
In our case, it may be that we want one approach for something like Moz2D, and another one for something like skis, cairo, etc. Milan On 2013-03-27, at 7:08 PM, George Wright <geo...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 03/27/2013 07:37 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: >> I predict that eventually we'll want to switch mozilla-central to git. (I'm >> not in favour of it, but hg is not the DVCS of the future.) So, git users >> not liking git's subrepositories gives me pause and I think it's imperative >> to consider the situation of git users now and after a hypothetical >> mozilla-central switch to git. > > I've investigated submodules before to try to solve this exact problem > and came away pretty unimpressed. This was nearly 3 or 4 years ago, but > I doubt things have changed much. > > A quick search suggests that other people are also similarly unimpressed > with submodules, such as the post at > http://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/why-your-company-shouldnt-use-git-submodules/ > > I suspect the answer here would be to choose a solution that is easily > convertible to a repo-style setup. We already have experience in-house > with repo due to Android and B2G and it seems to mostly do what we would > be aiming for with this project. > > On the main note (which I already brought up on IRC): I would be very > interested in seeing whether this experiment succeeds or not, as I'd > like to get to the stage where the entire Skia source tree inside > mozilla-central is just a checkout of upstream Skia, whether that's via > submodules or repo or whatever. > > George > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
