Common makefile (gasp) stuff

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On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 07:33:38 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2015-01-14 21:54, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> I hear you but The Internet says submodules are a kind of a 
>> bummer.
>
> Most issues I have read about is because they don't know how 
> submodules work. It's the same thing with most tools, if you 
> don't know how to use it the experience is going to be crappy.
>
> I'm hoping the submodules can be automatically update, i.e. on 
> a push to some of the submodules. I'm expecting most work to be 
> done in the submodules and the super repository will be kept in 
> sync automatically.

We have been using git submodules for internal dependencies of 
Sociomantic projects for quite a while. It is not perfect but it 
works good if you defines terms of usage strict enough.

In this specific case I think it may work with help of few shell 
scripts that may reside in same top-level repo. Actually I do 
remember someone already trying that setup but can't find the 
links now. Anyone with better memory?