hmmm.... maybe.... That seems basically like you create a specification for what versions of which repos you want and it will create it. Is that any different

hmmm.... maybe.... That seems basically like you create a specification for what versions of which repos you want and it will create it. Is that any different to just having a shell-script curl the repos and versioning that script? What I had in mind would be effectively external dependencies that would appear within the source tree when cloned/manifested/whatever which would themselves be version-controlled. It would effectively be a 'curl' or 'clone' of an external version of a child repo maintained by the VCS. Does that make sense?