submodules is a curse IMO. I used submodules in the pass and I hate it. Some of our projects still use submodules and I am vocal about removing the reference. M

submodules is a curse IMO. I used submodules in the pass and I hate it. Some of our projects still use submodules and I am vocal about removing the reference. My reason disliking it is that 1) I always forget to do recursive, 2) I hate to muddle my root repository with another repository inside of it, 3) I forget to update the commit, and 4) most of the time I don't need submodules. I can live with more git clone commands. Oh add one more - a lot of people use git@ rather than https:// https:// because I don't use SSH to clone (I enable two-auth however) on my laptop, so whenever I clone one of our org's project which has sudmodule, I have to fix sudmodule config.... Personally I really dislike the fact Ansible's plugins are now sudmodules, but not up to me to decide. The only large repo I have worked with was Firefox (mozilla-central) but I use Mercurial. Either way the speed was never an issue for me for a fresh clone - I expect a while. In git I could clone specific branch or specify a depth if I know I just need specific branch to work with. I guess when you work with real big repo like Facebook's or Google, then maybe there is a concern.