Why?

> On Sep 1, 2020, at 8:39 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> It could be useful for grouping inter-dependent modules like pool/dbcp.
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> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 21:46 Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
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>> As I said previously, I would avoid using either one.  I really don’t know
>> why you would want to with Java. I can understand it with applications
>> written in C where you might want to compile all the dependencies along
>> with the main application. But that isn’t the case in Java. Introducing
>> subtrees or modules just adds complexity you don’t need.
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>> Ralph
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>>> On Sep 1, 2020, at 6:06 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I found the following helpful but it is from 2016,  so I wonder how much
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>>> has changed since then:
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>>> https://martowen.com/2016/05/01/git-submodules-vs-git-subtrees/
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>>> Gary
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>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 10:34 Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> The use case you're describing is fairly well handled by the git
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>>>> subtree command. There are some git plugins that add more complex
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>>>> workflows on top of that, but the base command is what you're looking
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>>>> for. Git submodules, in my experience, are far more useful when
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>>>> pointing to release commits and treating submodule updates like
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>>>> dependency updates. If you want the equivalent of how Subversion lets
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>>>> you link to another repo as a directory, that would be git-subtree,
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>>>> not git-submodule.
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>>>> On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 09:16, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
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>>>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:15 AM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
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>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 9:24 AM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
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>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>> I'm talking about girl's own submodules:
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>>>>>>> https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules
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>>>>>> I think the on-line book above has been updated since 2014 (as seen on
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>>>> the
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>>>>>> front page https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) so the reference page
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>>>>>> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule should be more accurate.
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>>>>> ARG: "I think the on-line book above has been updated" ->  "I think the
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>>>>> on-line book above has *NOT *been updated"
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>>>>> G
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>>>>>> Gary
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>>>>>>> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule
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>>>>>>> Gary
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>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 09:09 Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>> By git submodules, are you talking about a symlink to another git
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>>>>>>>> repository inside one of our repositories?
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>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>> -Rob
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>>>>>>>>> On Aug 29, 2020, at 6:52 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
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>>>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>>> Hi All,
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>>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>>> Any thoughts for or against creating a new git repository which
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>>>> would
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>>>>>>>>> contain all 'proper' Commons components as git submodules?
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>>>>>>>>> The idea is to be able to checkout all of Commons 'proper' in one
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>>>> go
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>>>>>>>> in one
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>>>>>>>>> place.
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>>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>>> Gary
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