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My lord, so much hate for them submodules. I'm actively using them for my project, where i have common components that are shared between other components. Having them as dependencies managed by a build tool is cumbersome as sometimes, purely for the sake of convenience, i need to update some shared component in place and have the changes propagate to other dependents.

Had a few mishaps, but those were the result of lack of experience. Overall, my experience with submodules is great. I can imagine what terror awaits those with bigger projects where everyone starts pushing random stuff from all directions.



Yeh for teams they are terrible. For solo development using a single branch they can see okay.




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