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Installing it locally is more in line with the everything-reproducible philosophy of Nix (which is generally a good idea). However, it's also a hassle, because e.g. do you require everyone to use Nix for their projects? That seems too restrictive.
Most people will also only have one super repo, and if they have two, they probably don't care that they use the same version of super.

I'm leaning more towards one global installation of the super binary, since it will make installation smoother and the initial adoption hurdle smaller.

I think it would be useful to be able to do super pull in arbitrary directories, where the current directory does not have to be a git repo itself and does thus also not have a .gitmodules file.

In that case super should just discover which subdirectories are git repos and pull their currently checked out branch (as long as there are no uncommited changes in the repo).

Each real-world project, that uses a super repo structure, will need a number of project-specific commands, think e.g. about

• a way to run database migrations
• a way to enable direnv
• a way to run builds across all repos
• a way to check if all runtime dependencies are met (e.g. expected databases are online)

It would therefore be very useful if super was extensible with custom commands supplied by users.

Implementation

An easy way to implement this would be to require each custom command to be its own executable (or executable file) and place them in a commands directory. super can then discover the files there and run them as a subprocess.

The commands directory will be in ~/.config/super/commands.

This command should allow you to add a new submodule by specifying a path to a repo, e.g.

super add [email protected]:channable/icepeak.git

This should add the repo as a submodule, and should also initialize the submodule.