Re: Composing git repositories

Am 02.04.2013 20:35, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra:

Jens Lehmann wrote:

quoted

But I think we recently learned to support that use case with
submodules. I think there are two floating models:

- Tracked:
[...]

- Untracked:
  Some people just want "the newest" tip of a branch checked out in
  the submodule and update that from time to time (I suspect this
  is because they are used to SVN externals, which I believe work
  that way). You throw away reproducibility, which I think is not
  good and not the way I expect Git to work.
[...]

Nope, it has nothing to do with SVN externals; I've never used them.
And no, all repositories aren't created equal.  I should be able to
add in magit.git into my dotfiles repository without worrying about
which commits the other repositories were at a particular commit.  If
my project depends on the bleeding edge of poppler and girarra, I
should always be able to tell what commits in each subproject the
build was passing in.  In other words, I should be able to freely
mixed floating and fixed submodules.  There's no reason for one to be
Right, and the other to be a shunned second-class citizen.

But you can currently mix floating and fixed submodules, as each
submodule can be configured differently. Or am I missing something
here?