This is exactly the opposite of what I was arguing for. In a monolithic repo, I can see and control what the consumers are doing. Your version is actually just

This is exactly the opposite of what I was arguing for. In a monolithic repo, I can see and control what the consumers are doing. Your version is actually just a way to implement semver. (Or, possibly, to do something worse than semver; subrepos by themselves, provide no stability contract, so I have to think really hard about updating my subrepos.)