Figured I'd forward this on to the list- it could strike up a discussion. I've looked at git-submodules, but it is quite new, and not all that lightweight as each submodule has its own .git directory. -Dan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loui <louipc.ist@gmail.com> Date: Oct 22, 2007 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing CVS [was: Status Report 2007-10-15] To: dpmcgee@gmail.com Do you think git submodules could be useful or relevant considering the 'Killing CVS' topic? In terms of checking out individual packages. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#submodules "Large projects are often composed of smaller, self-contained modules. For example, an embedded Linux distribution's source tree would include every piece of software in the distribution with some local modifications; a movie player might need to build against a specific, known-working version of a decompression library; several independent programs might all share the same build scripts."