On Tuesday, 28 June 2016 at 09:13:40 UTC, qznc wrote:
I don't believe a root repo makes sense.
Submodules should be used to model actual dependencies.
For example, phobos does not depend on dmd, since it could be
ldc or gdc as well.
Some dependencies are: dmd depends on druntime and phobos;
phobos depends on druntime. However, you cannot give dmd *and*
phobos a druntime submodule, since that would duplicate it.
Currently, the assumed directory structure is to have dmd,
phobos, druntime side by side. Using my submodules philosophy
would change that to a nested structure. Probably not worth the
hassle.
I forgot to mention the advantage of the nested submodules
approach: You can bisect for bugs. You cannot do that with
completely separate repos, since there is no way to know which
revisions work together.
