On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 05:07:48PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:48:03PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 07:00:59AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > > > > git submodules are awkward basically because they are an automated wget. > > > I don't think an explicit wget is much better ... but > > > looks like I'm alone in this. Oh well. > > > So it will be a weird dance of wget a tarball, unpack, generate > > > ISO and run. God help you if you need to patch the test - it's > > > wget all the way down. > > > > That's the problem - the submodules are not automated. They are > > half-automated, and the rules for when the automation works and for when > > the automation falls apart are not intellibible for the general Joe > > Developer. > > > > You might spend a few days studying how they behave exactly, and then you > > will know. But unless you will use them every day you will forget again, > > because the rules do not lend themselves to some abstraction easily > > understood by humans. > > > > Thanks > > > > Michal > > But why would learning a different tool be easier?
a) it's working lends itself to explaining in human-intelligible concepts b) it's used elsewhere as well Thanks Michal
