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

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:28 AM, David Thompson
<david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> ... VTKData and VTKLargeData when submitting topics for review. ... thinking about adding
>> VTKData as an optional git submodule to the VTK repository ...
>
> I like it. My one concern is how VTKData growth will be managed. I can see people submitting a topic with baselines, getting feedback and making changes, and then changing the baselines. Will the gerrit merge remove the intermediate baselines from what is merged into the main repo?
>
That issue is separate, and is unchanged by whether we make them a
submodule or not. They are growing right now, but we check out the tip
of master and hope for the best... Eventually they will go away, and
some growth in the interim is probably acceptable and why they are in
a separate repository in the first place.