[Owncloud] github migration

[Robin Appelman]

On Sunday 02 September 2012 18:37:25 Thomas Müller wrote:
> Am Sonntag, dem 02.09.2012 um 16:52 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
> > On 02.09.2012, at 07:46, Georg Ehrke <ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > there are still two issues with the migration.
> > > 1. Why didn't we move the 3rdparty stuff into it's own repo? We done
> > > that earlier, but we reverted it.> 
> > Please do it if it´s confirmed to work :-)
> 
> Let's elaborate if gitsubmodules can help us here.
> We need a git expert here - please step forward.
> 
> > > 2. How are we going to deal with different ownCloud versions and the
> > > apps and 3rdparty repo? Are we going to create stable4-5, stable5,
> > > stable6, … branches?
> AFAIK: with gitsubmodules we could keep the tagging within core because the
> submodule's checkout hash will be stored and versioned as well - am I right
> or not?

I haven't heard many good things about git submodules though.

 - Robin Appelman