Re: Notes on Using Git with Subprojects

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 11:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20060927113813.GC8056@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609271152270.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

hoi :)

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:55:22AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > My current approach is like this:
> > 
> >  * create a .gitmodules file which lists all the directories
> >    which contain a submodule.
> >  * the .git/refs/heads directory of the submodule gets stored in
> >    .gitmodule/<modulename> inside the parent project
> 
> Taking this a step further, you could make subproject/.git/refs/heads a 
> symbolic link to .git/refs/heads/subproject, with the benefit that fsck 
> Just Works.

in fact it is done this way (more or less).

> Nevertheless, you have to take care of the fact that you need to commit 
> the state of the root project just after committing to any subproject.

why?

You can accumulate as many changes in different subprojects until you get to a state that is worth committing in the parent project. All these changes are then seen as one atomic change to the whole project.

-- 
Martin Waitz