From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:47:13 GMT
Subject: Re: sub module branches
Message-ID: <32541b131003081647j2eadb8dfs758611fd4007deea@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b42431c81003080314j694114b5o433988470f13328a@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mahesh Vaidya <forvaidya@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a situation like
>
> project/source.git
>           /submod_1
>           /submod_2
>
> I need to modify code in all 3 repos viz. source, submod_1 & submod_2.
>
> If I create branch in source, will it propogate to remaining
> submodules ? or in other words can I have "global branch" and "global
> tag"

You could use git-subtree instead: http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree

That will allow you to branch all the repos at once.  It slightly
increases the effort required to extract the changes and submit them
upstream again, though.

Have fun,

Avery