Re: Sharing nested subparts of large repository?

> I've been using git for a couple of months to get used to the system.
> Basic stuff - a few larger project repositories in unique
> directories, commits, pushes to a remote repository. Mostly as a kind
> of backup system.
>
> However, my ultimate goal is to share part of one large project
> currently being managed with git with my developers. I want them to
> have access to source code and test data, but not my manuscripts,
> correspondence, whatever.
>
> I also want to make a portion of what I will give my developers
> available as open source, e.g., on github, but not all of it. Just
> the stable, non-developmental parts. NOT the our development stuff
> and not the parts being used for private contracts.
>
> Submodules seem promising, but the examples are not quite what I am
> looking for, as far as I can tell. They talk about isolating
> submodules that depend on a larger project. I want to make available
> the larger project while keeping nested submodules (so to speak)
> private.
>