Use submodules to reference GitHub repositories

Open peterbarker opened this issue 9 years ago • 2 comments

Currently we have raw instructions in scripts that git clone random repositories; we should instead have submodules. That will let us reference specific commits that should be checked out, rather than either changing to a branch (which could change), or taking pot luck with the master branch.

Mar 10 '17 02:03 peterbarker

seems fair.... unless there's a need to fetch different versions of the same repo for any reason. ..?

Mar 10 '17 04:03 davidbuzz

On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Buzz wrote:

seems fair.... unless there's a need to fetch different versions of the same repo for any reason. ..?

Not as far as I'm aware. Additionally, I think the submodule mechanism would probably allow that anyway :-)

Mar 10 '17 05:03 peterbarker