Proposal : aggregated dlang git repository

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 06:17:35PM +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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).

I thought somebody mentioned that the latest version of git submodules
now allows tracking branch heads instead of specific commits?


T

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