Using submodules for third_party/

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 03:09:09PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:22:40AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This seems like something that would be useful regardless of whether/when
> we end up using submodules.
> 
> I'll set up a script that mirrors the git repositories of the various
> third party libraries we use on git.samba.org.

Unfortunately I don't have the permissions to create anything fancy on
git.samba.org. Metze, can you perhaps create a /data/git/third_party directory
on git.samba.org for me that I can write to?

Jelmer

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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - https://jelmer.uk/
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