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tarkin2 on Aug 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries

Oh lord no. They’re a pain to manage. The world needs fewer gitsubmodules.

manicdee on Aug 13, 2020 [–]

How do you go about preparing a PR for an upstream if all the code is magically in your own version control system?

And then how do you separate site-specific patches from bug fixes and new features for the upstream?

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