Moritz Angermann
Hi *,
so what do we do with submodules? If you point someone to a fork of ghc, say:
gitlab.haskell.org/foo/ghc
Indeed submodules have been a constant thorn in our side. We encounter this same issue during CI jobs on forks. To work around this we have a script (.gitlab-ci/fix-submodules.py) which tweaks the submodule paths to point to gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc. Others are free to use this script locally however it is surely a hack. I suppose we could just try changing the submodule upstream URLs to absolute URLs. This would make the (arguably more common) case of cloning and contributing without submodule changes easier, while making the case of contributing patches with submodule changes more difficult. My usual solution is to just clone from ghc/ghc and then add a separate remote for my fork. Cheers, - Ben