[vtk-developers] Adding VTKData and VTKLargeData as optional submodules

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> For ITK, we started with submodules for the data and after a few months
> abandoned it. We had too many situations where the submodules got screwed up
> because a developer did not follow the proper protocol. I can't recall the
> details.
>
> I suggest we keep things as they are until we switch over to a content based
> hashing we use in ITK. Which, my the way, works great.

We think that may be a ways off, and any reasonable review where you
look at CDash at Home would uncover a submodule screw up. I followed the
ITK situation, and honestly think it was quite different with a group
uncomfortable with git when submodule support was less mature. The
separate repositories is also causing issues whenever a baseline needs
to be changed.

Marcus