What is the problem git submodules are supposed to solve?
- by Joshua Dance
What is the problem that git submodules solve well? When should I use them? Or rather what is their use case?
The only use of submodules that I have seen 'in the wild' has been when used to share code between multiple repositories. From what I have experienced, submodules do not appear to be ideally suited to this use case. You run into git…