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Casey Muratori
OK, then for right now, let's forge ahead with just my repo being the CPP repo, then, and not try …
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Abner Coimbre
Yeah, okay. This should stay primitive if the software we're using to handle the code base in any …
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David Owens II
Yeah, the private fork under the Handmade Hero org is the biggest difference. That's still nice to…
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Casey Muratori
Well, but it would allow people to have the full source code in their repository and not worry abo…
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David Owens II
To be fair, your ask isn't trivial. You want an ACL'd remote file share that works across platfor…
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Casey Muratori
So, another thing I am thinking: maybe we just don't do the community cpp repository at all. Mayb…
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Casey Muratori
So, the next question would be, should we just ditch GitHub? If it sucks, it sucks. If we could …
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Matt Mascarenhas
Hei debiatan! Man, absolutely. At a guess, the shortest amount of time I could possibly spend on o…
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Anders Kaare
I don't see the value of submodules, except that they would allow public repositories to reference…
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Abner Coimbre
I had learned about submodules from this article: . If we are to stick with GitHub, I say give Dav…
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Jeremiah Johnson
Why not just have two organizations? If you're hell bent on using ONLY the GitHub for Windows cl…
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Casey Muratori
Personally, I think the submodules option would probably be the way to go if it weren't for the na…
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David Owens II
Submodules suck when you try to use them to actively contribute within those. However, as a basic …
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Matt Mascarenhas
Ah, cheers, owensd. I'm more thinking about how those standard community versions will be maintain…
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Asaf Gartner
Can you elaborate on the submodules idea? Last time I used them (a few years ago) they were very a…
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David Owens II
If you wanted to make edits to the HMH source, you would do the following:Fork the HMHCommunity ve…
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popcorn
Let me preface with: I like C. I think we should write more things in C. I do not think we shou…
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Matt Mascarenhas
Yeah, submodules seem to be the way to go. I use and currently symlink the source into xcb_handm…
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noxy_key
How does this make things easier for people who maintain their own forks? These are by all rights,…
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drjeats
[EDIT] Everyone beat me to it! :pinch: Anders Kaare's twitter reply is probably a better bet than…
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Scott Brooks
Or he could push to a different branch like or something like that. Then the community maintain…
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David Owens II
That's going to cause Casey to have to sync the community one as well otherwise it will error when…
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Scott Brooks
You can use separate repos for this. I don't think that one needs to be a fork. You should be abl…
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noxy_key
Yep, apparently so. We are posting at the same time and I missed the convo while typing :)
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Casey Muratori
I'm definitely not putting the assets in the GitHub, so hopefully everyone can be OK with that :) …
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David Owens II
That is what the submodules are, essentially symlinks. You either do this: git clone --recursive <…
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noxy_key
I think it might also possible to symlink other repositories into your own, but it seems it's only…
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David Owens II
Certainly, it's all about finding the most pragmatic workarounds. =)
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Casey Muratori
The submodules idea you proposed sounds like the best work-around so far. I don't have any experi…
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David Owens II
I sent a more detailed email about this, but I think you want top-level repos for your setup inste…
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