Re: git remote vs. submodules

From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2010, 15:00 UTC
Message-ID: <4CDC04F7.6080801@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=t7RoLTwxc1KOv7_vZi-OgD_Jcu+66-fte6Sq@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/11/10 3:44 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote:
>> Are you maybe looking for a subtree merge?
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html
> 
> Yeah, that looks like it.  I never would have hit upon the read-tree
> step by myself -- I would have just laid things out with the prefix
> already embedded in the subprojects.
> 
> Hmmm... it seems to me that feeding changes back to the subprojects
> might be difficult (and that is born out by a comment at the end of
> the page you referenced.)

https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree, it makes exactly that easier.

tom