[racket-dev] A story of a package split

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On 08/13/2013 05:05 PM, Nick Shelley wrote:
>>
>> I was mainly asking about the intermediate form because it seems like it
>> could be useful, but I didn't understand how it would work.
>
>
> One major difference I've just spotted is that git submodules are tied to
> particular commit IDs, leading to detached-HEAD checkouts, where a looser
> approach can check out subrepos on real branches.

Apparently this limitation has been lifted in the most recent git release.

Sam