From: Jacob Helwig <jacob@...>
Date: 2010-01-27T02:19:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Open Source Subversion Hosting

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:05, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser
>> <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> So does Git. �In fact, Git does everything Subversion does, but better.
>>> Do yourself a big favor and drop Subversion entirely.
>>
>> Git handles subprojects, sure... but it's arguable whether it does
>> them *well* :)
>
> Is git submodule really any worse than svn external?
>

I'd say that currently released versions of Git make working with
submodules pretty awkward.  However, the upcoming 1.7 release of Git
gets rid of almost every last one of my complaints about working with
submodules.  They're a lot harder to get out of sync, without
realizing it.

-Jacob