[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] GitHub anyone?

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Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:51:20 -0000

Mehdi Amini via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:

> My opinion is that submodules or not is an implementation details. For
> the sake of this high-level discussion we should be able to keep it as
> "submodules" meaning "some system to integrate and manage
different
> repositories coherently".
> We should evaluate subtree as well, as you mentioned, but also the
> tradeoff of other tools like repo (Android).

Fair enough.  It might be less confusing to use a term other that
"submodule" though.  I've used "superproject/subproject"
in the past,
for example, and also "host repository" and "project
repository."

                              -David