[Issue 11792] Investigate migrating to a meta repo

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https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11792



--- Comment #5 from Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow at gmail.com> 2014-01-06 18:36:22 EET ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> I am getting 404 on the mentioned repository (but D-dot-git works).

As mentioned later in the thread, the repository was moved to Bitbucket to
prevent GitHub from "helpfully" generating mention notifications:

https://bitbucket.org/cybershadow/d/commits

> Submodules are not really meant for importing history. Actually, looking at the
> man page kind of advise you against doing this:
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html
> (2nd paragraph of the description).

I don't see how this applies to a meta-repository. It is also not possible to
meaningfully merge the history of several projects with a non-linear history.

> In my approach, that would be to update the pointed commit (you still have a
> pointed commit with --remote).

In what circumstances would that happen?

> Now, how do we handle testing PR that require Makefiles changes ? If I do a PR
> to Phobos, and one to the superproject which modify Makefiles, how does the
> auto-tester will possibly handle it ?

This problem is no different from any changes that require patches on multiple
components at once. It is currently not handled.

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