Proposal : aggregated dlang git repository

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On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 18:05:56 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> What does "update" mean in this context? I was expecting the 
> projects to be more or less up to date. -- Andrei

$ git clone --recursive 
git at github.com:D-Programming-Language/dlang

This will clone all submodules set to latest released version tag 
(v2.066.1 right now)

$ cd dlang; ./dlang.d update

This will update all submodules to latest git master heads.

git submodules are designed to track exact commit hash of remote 
repository - it is impossible to define those to always be cloned 
as most recent version of some branch. One can keep updating 
submodule references with some daemon service (Vladimir does 
exactly that in https://bitbucket.org/cybershadow/d) but that 
will pollute history of meta-repo with dozens of trivial commits 
every day making it hard to use it for any real code (and also 
relying on well-being of that daemon service).