git submodules

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> Linus, everyone,
>
> We have run into this so many times... especially with libdivecomputer,
> but also with libgit2
> (see the recent issues in 4.7 where Windows users couldn't initialize new
> cloud repos). The
> problem is that the Subsurface source really assume a specific version of
> one of those other
> libraries.
>
> I think we should add those two projects as git submodules to Subsurface.
> That will make it
> so much easier to always have a matching version of the three components
> when you build
> Subsurface. I'll admit that I'm on the fence regarding libgit2, but for
> libdivecomputer this seems
> to be the obvious solution.
>
> Any comments, suggestions?
>

I like that idea, it's easier to handle when the project is fast moving.
libgit gave us a lot of problems in the past because of breakages in point
releases.


> Thanks
>
> /D
>
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