Re: [boost] Request for a new submodule, tools/depinst

Daniel James wrote:

On 11 November 2016 at 19:19, Peter Dimov wrote:

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- cd .. - git clone -b $TRAVIS_BRANCH --depth 1 https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git boost-root - cd boost-root - git submodule update --init --depth 1 tools/regression

The super project is constantly changing, so that's no more reproducible than downloading a script.

Yes, you're right about that.

It also doesn't work for pull requests and is excessive boilerplate.

It does work for pull requests. See for instance https://github.com/boostorg/serialization/pull/48 But never mind. I withdraw the request. I agree with Rene that a new submodule just for two files is overkill.