Proposal: better library management ideas (was: how to checkout proper submodules)

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:23:13AM +0100, Geoffrey Mainland wrote:
> 
> Side note: the fingerprint script *didn't even work* for almost
> a year after it was introduced; see commit 73ce2e70.

Which implies that wanting to go back in time is rare, so making it easy
should be given low weight when considering the options?

> 3) Use subtrees.

Is this possible with subtrees?:

* Initially ghc's Cabal repo is at the same commit as upstream
* We make a local commit 123 in Cabal to fix some bug
* Cabal upstream makes a commit 456 to fix the same bug differently
* We jump to commit 456, in such a way that we don't end up merging
  with our 123 commit every time we pull from Cabal in the future


Thanks
Ian
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