On: Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems

[steveklabnik]

They are in fact a giant pain, but sometimes, still the best option.

[nopurpose → steveklabnik]

Did you try https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo ? Looks like it vendors in other repositories, making submodules entirely transparent for consumers and still allowing sumbodule workflow for authors.

[steveklabnik → nopurpose]

We didn't, thanks for the tip!