[TYPO3-v4] Git submodules or not?

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 22-8-2011 9:45, Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
>   + makes the life for developers a bit easier since the just work with
>     one source directory and git takes care to put the things to the
>     accordant repositories and branches there

Can you explain this a bit more? What is from a functional point of view 
the advantage (not the technical difference)?

Let's use DBAL (and Xavier as the DBAL 'team') as an example (it's 
easier to talk about a concrete example, so nothing personal here :-) ).

With submodules I have to update them frequently and when I want to push 
something for DBAL I have to do this from the DBAL directory.
With and without submodules git seems to know which files belong with 
which branch (at least it looks that way to me).

What can Xavier do with submodules that he can't do without submodules? 
Is this advantage so important for him that this out-ways the 
inconvenience for other developers?

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Kind regards / met vriendelijke groet,

Jigal van Hemert.