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On Aug 21, 2013, at 8:03 AM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 21 2013, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 
>> IIUC, git sub-modules point to a specific revision of the external
>> repository, right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> So would projects still have to explicitly update to newer versions of
>> the incubator code by changing that sub-module reference?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> With the copy process we have now it is possible to update only part of the
>> incubator code in a project. Is that a feature we would want to retain if
>> using sub-modules?
> 
> We'd lose it indeed.
> 
> OTOH, it seems _relatively_ dangerous to me to update part of
> Oslo-incubator like we do, considering the possible dependencies between
> files.
> 
> My 2c,

Keeping the same functionality would mean that each of the oslo-incubator directories would be its own submodule.

Vish

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