Using submodules for third_party/

Mon Dec 8 02:22:40 MST 2014

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:01:31AM +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> I can think of the following problem: an upstream project changes the url
> to it's repo. Then you checkout an older samba version after a few year
> in order
> to track down a customer bug. And the old samba version still references the
> old upstream url...

That's why we need copies on git.samba.org and reference
only those. Backlevel support is really important.

Volker

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