On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:49:53PM +0000, Andy Parkins wrote:
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> How are these commits any different from just having one big repository?  If 

You can work on the submodule independently.

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> some of the development of the submodule is contained in the supermodule then 
> it's not a submodule anymore.

On the contrary, that's exactly what a submodule is supposed to be.

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> Why bother with all the effort to make a separation between submodule and 
> supermodule and then store the submodule commits in the supermodule.  That's 
> not supermodule/submodule git - that's just normal git.

[..]

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> myproject (git root)
>  |----- src
>  |----- doc
>  `----- libxcb (git root)
> 
[..]
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> 
> Submodules will solve this problem.  In the future I'll be able to check out 
> any commit of myproject and it will automatically checkout the right commit 
> from the libxcb repository.

How are you going to checkout the right commit of the lixcb repo if
you didn't store it in the supermodule ?

skimo
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