Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:55:08 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>, freebsd-git@freebsd.org, Ilya Bakulin <ilya@bakulin.de> Subject: Re: FYI - LLVM migration to Git and GitHub has started Message-ID: <CAPyFy2CT5VC1%2BmJZhH%2BUKfF7q6X8t6Quv8afRiVRnysPe=aj2w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfr-RS6Xk_HQ=eWugG7YV0Ame8UipKH_xqPmYxu9E_%2BFTw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2Aaovca5B0D0cyo3r0%2B7%2BS4CK%2BnhmfuY4V1fLmjvJ49dQ@mail.gmail.com> <CADzbx%2BqQrXrzvOS=Rpww7NmW4xosmDc8HA%2B-ML8JxfFtPXG6%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfofA%2B_utwE84qs5fUhQyxJxNYENZc=pQnShb3%2B8MppBFg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGMYy3tZcUE%2B43gA9M=FUkgX25hN7NnViruiXej7woQZF6Jm3g@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfr-RS6Xk_HQ=eWugG7YV0Ame8UipKH_xqPmYxu9E_%2BFTw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 19:20, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > In looking into submodules, I couldn't figure out how to layer changes on > top of the submodule in any way that was approaching sane... If we used the > code verbatim, as is in the upstream repo, it might be OK, but it looks > like it's intended to solve different problems than our 'vendor branch' > issue. Yes, I'm quite convinced we don't want submodules. Even if we're not modifying the code dealing with submodule updates is just a constant annoyance. I believe `git subtree` can form a workable replacement for the way we approach vendor branches.
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