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Well indeed. I think the ultimate point is that Git is severely lacking here. There are clear use cases (you listed some) that drive people to submodules or LFS, but they are both shitty solutions.

We need Git (or something else) to provide a third solution that actually works. I'm really hoping that JJ realises that this is a problem that needs to be solved but I'm not holding my breath.

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What problem are you trying to solve exactly?

I think submodules are good enough for what they do and there's room in Git's model for forward development and it's also flexible enough that third party tools can piggyback on it. Like Git in general it's a bit of a pain till you practice with it more.

Git can do some amazing stuff, I use it for data as well as code.

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