Documentation proposal

[Nick Schermer]

2009/5/4 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:
> On Mon, 4 May 2009 01:07:48 -0700
> "Brian J. Tarricone" <brian at tarricone.org> wrote:
>> Something like that... only maybe better might be to -- as you say --
>> have all the docs in one git repo, but still distribute them in each
>> app module as we do today.  Should be simple to do with git
>> submodules, right?  That way people who want to improve the docs only
>> need to look at one module, but the docs still end up in each
>> individual module for distribution.
>
> Can you explain that for me? I don't know what git submodules are.

Google can: Submodules allow foreign repositories to be embedded
within a dedicated subdirectory of the source tree, always pointed at
a particular commit.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html

Nick