Re: [boost] [git] Near future.. How do we deal with git-native libraries?

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Near future.. How do we deal with git-native libraries?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-07 17:54:31

Daniel James <daniel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On 5 December 2013 08:23, JOAQUIN M. LOPEZ MUÑOZ <joaquin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> I understand this is
>>
>> https://github.com/boostorg/boost/commit/66b6e0b0dcff397010815624ce02c1d1c96da2bd
>>
>> Excuse my ignorance but: does this mean syncing between the master project and
>> submodules need be done manually? I was assuming that somehow updates to a
>> submodule automatically propagate to checkouts of the master project.
>
> Currently it needs to be done manually. Eventually it should be
> scripted, hopefully from a git hook so that it's pretty fast. There's
> some dispute about how the changes should be propagated to the main
> module.

IMO boostorg/boost's master branch shouldn't get updated to a state X
until X passes regression testing.

-Dave