Re:Git 2.9 released
by coldpie on Thursday June 16, 2016 @08:50AM
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We've been using submodules for almost a decade. It's easy to make mistakes, which is bad, but they're hardly unusable.
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Well, I might overstated how slow it was to check them out in serial. They are still PITA thanks to specific behavior, missing features (both in git and in 3rd party tools such as bitbucket), etc..
The benefits oftentimes overshadow the issues with them, but there are drawbacks to using them.