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

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:

Daniel James wrote:

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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

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- 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.

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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.

You know what's funny.. I forgot you have enough permissions to do whatever :-) So many thanks for asking about it first. -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail