antidoh

I've never used git in-the-large, which may be why I don't understand:

Why must some other library/module be part of my project? Why not reference and maintain the external lib/mod externally? We've been doing that for decades. It seems a solved problem.

Bringing an external library within the fold of your project feels like unnecessary coupling.

pyre
One example would be:

  * https://github.com/altercation/solarized

  * https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized
The vim-colors-solarized repo is a subtree of the solarized repo. This is mostly a convenience for vim users that use something like pathogen + git-submodule to keep their plugins up-to-date. This way you can create a submodule @ ~/.vim/bundle/vim-colors-solarized and it would be the root of the bundle tree. If the vim colorscheme was only part of the larger repo, then users would be forced to create their own repos, or else do something like:

  git submodule .vim/bundle/.vim-colors-solarized
  ln -s .vim-colors-solarized/vim-colors-solarized .vim/bundle/