On 3/27/13 2:03 PM, Justin Lebar wrote:
Since we believe if we go through with this it would be the first time we use a
true subrepository system for a component
used in mozilla-central, we'd very much appreciate any thoughts or feedback
people might have on the idea.
Have you thought about how this hg subrepo will interact with the git
mirrors of m-c?
Using m-c git isn't just for contrarians these days: B2G relies
heavily on git clones of m-c. So we need to make sure this will work
properly.
hg-git (the tool we use to synchronize Mercurial and Git repos) supports
subrepos. Although, I'm not sure how well it works. And, the side-effect
there is that you are forcing submodules on Git users. I haven't met
many Git users who enjoy submodules, myself included. submodules are so
bad that a whole class of wrapping tools (like repo [1]) have sprung up
to plug the deficiencies.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/git-repo/
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