2009/8/30 Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>: > Don't SVN externals require a commit to update? Or are you talking about > externals based on LATEST or something unreproducible? :-) Honestly I don't know what svn does, I never used that, but people seem to be continually disappointed by the fact that git submodules don't "automatically" do things. They are not a deployment tool or a way to organize a central repository into several loosely coupled standalone units (e.g. an SVN repo with a bunch of paths, one per subproject, each containing {trunk,branches,tags}, something git can't really provide easily), they are a tool for integrating standalone subprojects into a downstream project (e.g. a vendor branch). The overall disappointment with submodules seems to be that people want loosely coupled subprojects that can all be checked out at once or separately and updated at once, creating vendor branches isn't exactly a common operation.Thread Previous | Thread Next