Git submodules aren’t convenient either. For the silo and corporate development use case, just use multiple repositories and make your build tool aware of multiple repositories. It is slightly less painful than submodules.
replyI feel like submodules could be a lot easier to work with if the git command made it easy to update all submodules in one go based on branch head for the submodule.
replyI think everyone knows that this is a consequence of git's design. Nobody's disputing that.
replyUnfortunately there are many people who think git is a panacea and is suitable for all version control tasks of anything.