[skyfaller]

That sounds promising, but are we talking about https://github.com/brettlangdon/git-vendor ? It looks like it's been abandoned since 2016 and none of the forks on GitHub look like they have much traction. This looks even less like something I'd want to base my workflow off of than git-subrepo.

[saulrh]

Ugh, hadn't noticed the author went AWOL. Yeah, that's it. I've been using it without apparent issue at least that long. Now I'm not sure if I'd recommend using it, agreed. On the one hand, unmaintained software is always sketchy. On the other hand, it's actually only like two hundred lines of bash, so worst-case you just fork it and pretend you wrote a custom script to manage your subtrees like everyone else does? :/