<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Michael Catanzaro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcatanzaro@gnome.org" target="_blank">mcatanzaro@gnome.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":pv" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Maybe this is a GitHub-specific problem. If the submodule files are not<br>
present in the archive, then archive cannot be intended to be used</div></blockquote></div><br>I searched and found many people were complaining about it a few years ago... and</div><div class="gmail_extra">I read a few references about Github considering to fix it, but AFAIK no real action </div><div class="gmail_extra">has been taken. I believe probably because it isn't a very popular feature; they just don't</div><div class="gmail_extra">care to deal with it.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I haven't seen any posts that really sing it's praises; and more than a few that detest it. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Personally, I think it's more trouble than it's worth, but if upstream decides to use it</div><div class="gmail_extra">for what ever the reason, it's their project and I'll deal with it. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>