Add `submodule-add` command

[erikd-ambiata]

When adding package whatever at lib/whatever it would then check whatever's dependencies and recursively add them as well.

[cartazio]

@erikd i've also not been able to find docs for how i can depend on other repos... been trying to dig that up since you mentioned it

[erikd-ambiata]

The way we currently do it is with git:

mkdir -p lib
git submodule add lib/whatever https://github.com/someone/whatever

and it should just all work.

[erikd-ambiata]

Spoke to @jystic about this at lunch. He's not (yet) convinced this is a good idea.

The Pros:

• The submodule command will be listed in the mafia help output making it easily discoverable.
• We can add both submodule add and submodule rm, the second of which is a glaring omission in the git submodule command.

The Cons:

• Ties mafia to git (but no more so that is already the case).

[cartazio]

It took me 10 minutes to figure out that git add is how I update what the submodule ref. And that in contrast git submodule update resets that child repo.

I am not an outlier in my git weakness, and I'm probably more competent than it's reasonable to expect ;)

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:54 PM Erik de Castro Lopo [email protected] wrote:

Spoke to @jystic https://github.com/jystic about this at lunch. He's not (yet) convinced this is a good idea.

The Pros:

• The submodule command will be listed in the mafia help output making it easily discoverable.
• We can add both submodule add and submodule rm, the second of which is a glaring omission in the git submodule command.

The Cons:

• Ties mafia to git (but no more so that is already the case).

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