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
