Re: [boost] [git] Near future.. How do we deal with git-native libraries?

Daniel James writes:

On 7 December 2013 22:54, Dave Abrahams wrote:

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Daniel James writes:

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On 5 December 2013 08:23, JOAQUIN M. LOPEZ MUÑOZ wrote:

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I understand this is

https://github.com/boostorg/boost/commit/66b6e0b0dcff397010815624ce02c1d1c96...

Excuse my ignorance but: does this mean syncing between the master project and submodules need be done manually? I was assuming that somehow updates to a submodule automatically propagate to checkouts of the master project.

Currently it needs to be done manually. Eventually it should be scripted, hopefully from a git hook so that it's pretty fast. There's some dispute about how the changes should be propagated to the main module.

IMO boostorg/boost's master branch shouldn't get updated to a state X until X passes regression testing.

Is this something you're willing to automate? I don't think anyone will want to do that manually.

It's easy enough to do manually, IMO. It would certainly be better to have it automated. I don't have time to work on Boost for the forseeable future, so no, I won't be automating it.