[Kde-scm-interest] Package splitting

[Thomas Zander]

On Wednesday 27. January 2010 08.30.59 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> When developing, however, just detach the submodule. Go into it, checkout 
> master or 4.3 or whatever and work on it. Sure, a "git status" in the 
> supermodule will produce "modified" for each directory where you've been 
> working, but why are you in the supermodule in the first place?
> 
> If we do this, there will be nothing in the supermodule but information to 
> download the sub-repositories and to build.

That would become very confusing to a lot of people, especially the 'its 
modified in dir A, not in dir B' part. I'd rather avoid having submodules as 
they really are a PITA to work with.

-- 
Thomas Zander