Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 09:24 +0200, Tomas Hozza wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the situation where 
> a
> > project decides to use submodules in Git.  The archive generated 
> doesn't
> > incorporate the submodule files.  

Maybe this is a GitHub-specific problem. If the submodule files are not
present in the archive, then archive cannot be intended to be used --
it's just a consequence of pushing a tag to GitHub that a tarball of
the repo contents gets automatically generated.

Projects that host real tarball releases (anything you get from GNOME,
for example) will include the submodule in the archive.