From: Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:11:39 GMT
Subject: Re: git remote vs. submodules
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=wT4aVfaw3ZSyqPgforOc3fBSLCP8CQMboFOva@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CDC04F7.6080801@dbservice.com>

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/10 3:44 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> 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.

That looks cool too!  Thanks.

--wpd