Re: [RFC] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP (or not). Call for Participation.

On 08.08.2011 08:58, Ryan McCue wrote: > Kiall Mac Innes wrote: >> Later on in the doc, you go into detail about submodules, and CRLF -> LF >> support in both Git and Hg. > > To be fair, submodules don't work exactly the same. Unlike > svn:externals, which are linked to a repository, submodules are linked > to a repository *and a commit*. That means that if an external is > updated, the submodule must be updated, and that change must be committed. The main difference is that submodules are entire repositories, while in svn you can take sub-trees as externals. The difference you mention is not really one, because you can do the same in svn using 'foo -r1000 svn://somerepo' and have it fixed to one revision, just like git does. It's a much saner approach anyway to avoid people having out-of-sync versions of the externals. Cheers -- Jordi Boggiano @seldaek - http://nelm.io/jordi