the occasional submodule hiccup because it was misused as a replacement for a package manager when it really shouldn’t
I don’t see why using submodules as a package manager should excuse their endless bugs. I think you just have low standards.
The UX flaws of Git are very obvious IMO. Even the naming is terrible (“index”? What was wrong with “draft”?).
I don’t see why using submodules as a package manager should excuse their endless bugs.
I don’t know what are these “endless bugs” you’re talking about. Submodules might have a UX that’s rough on the edges, but there are really no moving parts in them as they basically amount to cloning a repo and checking out a specific commit.
Do you actually have any specific, tangible issue with submodules? Even in the cases you’re clearly and grossly misusing them
Do you actually have any specific, tangible issue with submodules?
Yeah sure. These are few that I can remember off the top of my head. There have been more:
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Submodules don’t work reliably with worktrees. I can’t remember what kind of bugs you run into but you will run into bugs if you mix them up. The official docs even warn you not to.
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When you switch branches or pull you pretty much always have to
git submodule update --init --recursive. Wouldn’t it be great if git could do that for you? Turns out it can, via an option calledsubmodule.recurse. However… if you use this you will run into a very bad bug that will seriously break your.gitdirectory. -
If you convert a submodule to a directory or vice versa and then switch between them git will get very confused and you’ll have to do some
rm -rfing.
Even in the cases you’re clearly and grossly misusing them
Oh right, so the bugs in Git are my fault. Ok whatever idiot.
