[samtheprogram]

I think submodules make sense in a lot of use cases, but a gotcha I saw with a team introduced to them recently is that pulling down from a branch or switching branches doesn’t update the submodule and/or stop you from changing branches if it is modified without being committed in some way.

If I could have submodules that operated that way I think submodules would be a lot more straightforward to newcomers.

[helix278]

You might find this git option helpful: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...

[helix278]

Note that this won't solve all cases. For example, you still have to watch out when merging branches with different submodule commit hashes that you run submodule update while merging.

[jayd16]

Yup, submodules are actually ok. Like with most git issues, it's more of a tooling UX problem then an architecture deficiency.