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mcc

Just confirming this because git sometimes adds features without me knowing it:

Say you have git repo A,
which has a submodule B,
which has a submodule C.

I want to alter C and use a patched version.

The *only* way to do this is to fork *both* C and B and create unique commits for both of them, right? There's no way for A to say "regardless of what B thinks it wants, override the hash of C"?

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Evan Prodromou

@mcc are you in some kind of technology masochism cult?

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@evan @mcc

ime shit like this comes up a lot if you are doing anything even marginally unusual

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mcc

@gutmunchies @evan This is a more or less unavoidable outcome if anyone is using submodules ever :(

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@mcc @evan

yeah that's basically it. i think they're fine for cases where you want to maintain, say, a data repository separate from your source code, but the second folks start using them for library dependencies everybody gets a migraine

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mcc

@gutmunchies @evan It is true but they are also practically the only clean way to manage C library dependencies

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mcc

@evan @gutmunchies Proposal: Cargo has many Rust packages which are just wrappers on C libraries, and it can always build the C libraries ok. We should start using cargo to build C programs , and then cargo will manage the C dependencies for us

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