Proposal : aggregated dlang git repository

[Luc Bourhis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 22:12:41 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 21:45:49 UTC, Luc Bourhis wrote:
>> On Monday, 9 February 2015 at 06:33:42 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> Idea is to create an aggregated repository as part of 
>>> D-Programming-Language organization which will include other 
>>> existing ones as a submodules
>>
>> Imho, git subtree would be a better idea
>
> I don't think so.
>
> What are the advantages?

With subtree, one has a unified working directory from which one 
can straightforwardly make commits for each components. So if one 
makes a change on phobos that relies on a change on dmd, both 
changes can easily be made, committed and then pushed. With 
submodule, this is so cumbersome that it would requires some 
dedicated scripts.

>One big disadvantage that I see is that you can't create pull
> requests to the original repos from subtrees.

You would create pull separate pull requests for the dmd 
repository, the phobos directory, etc. You mean you want to be 
able to do pull request from the master repository? Again, it 
seems to me this is not going to be intuitive at all with 
submodules.