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Using submodules require that everyone on your team has at least a vague idea of what's going on and how to not foot-gun themselves. That's hard enough with git itself. I don't think I've ever seen submodules used without become a major pain point.

That is a straight up nonstarter.

Someone was trying to talk me into git subtrees though...

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