On Tuesday, 13 May 2014, Antoine Levy Lambert <anto...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello Matt, > > this is interesting - thanks for pointing this out since I am a newbie in > git land. > > does one need to do some advance planning to make a module become a > submodule of > another repository aggregating the submodules ? > > Nope! You use it somewhat like svn:external, but you manually keep the commit ID in sync to whatever you want. I find it useful to use a tag for that commit. Otherwise you end up with a history like "update submodule" over and over again. > there would be a use case for an aggregation of the complete ant family, > maybe for an aggregation of the antlibs too … > > If there's a master build.xml or similar that can just iterate through all the projects and build them in order, that's a neat use case. -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
