It would be good to see a comparison with the many other reimplementations of submodules.
It didn’t look like a submodule reimplementation to me. Subtree is more of a submodule reimplementation. This is more like a language-agnostic package manager (like cargo, npm, etc) that downloads and caches source packages.
First line of the readme:
vdm is an alternative to e.g. Git Submodules for managing arbitrary external dependencies for the same reasons, in a more sane way.
Yes. I saw that. I was giving you my assessment based on the rest of the technical details in that readme. It doesn’t look like vdm is dealing with any part of the dependency repos (.git directories) other than to download them. In fact, they even mention deleting those .git directories. Please let me know if you think I misinterpreted any of those details.
