From: Avery Pennarun Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:38:56 GMT Subject: Re: git subtree: an alternative to git submodule Message-ID: <32541b130905180938v5dd5283g6b75ffb7e76f3280@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46dff0320905180855m3e1bd74esb564af0fbcf4b1ff@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ping Yin wrote: > It's really a cool feature, but i havn't tried it. Why? > > It will spends me some time saving and applying the patches and then > testing it (i don't have the appropriate environment setuped). But I > am busy and there is no urgent need to use this feature ( it is only a > rare case for me).  So i will wait until i need the feature or there > is an easy to fetch the code ( pu of official reposotory or other > repository with these patches applied). Excellent, thanks for the feedback. In fact you can git clone the code from here: git clone git://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree.git (It's not a copy of the git repo; it's a tiny standalone repo.) The important file is 'git-subtree'. Copy this anywhere on your PATH, and magically the 'git subtree' command will work. I admit that your next roadblock will probably be lack of documentation, though, as Junio points out. Have fun, Avery