A thought on subrepos

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> Generally, you'll either want to commit in app/ or lib/, and only in
> build/ when you've got "synchronization points" - dependencies between
> app and lib, releases, etc.
>

When I was at Linden Lab, we moved to exactly the model that Matt is
advocating, because our attempt to use subrepos in the naive and
(unfortunately) obvious way was just too confusing. These days, I prefer to
just not use them at all.
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