Re: dependable submodules
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Daniel <daniel@netwalk.org>
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- Mar 22, 2011, 03:56 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Robert Pollak <robert.pollak@jku.at> wrote:
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> On 2011-03-20 Daniel wrote: > [...] >> So would it be correct to say that even though those files are >> remotely fetched on a clone of the repository, they are actually >> revisioned and stored in the super project? > > You might want to try Avery Pennarun's git-subtree, which seems to > provide this functionality. > It's at https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree.
I tried git-subtree. thanks but this is not what I wanted. This removed the .git dir for the subtree and hence updating the subtree is not easy.
I want the functionality of git submodule except that I don't want the version checked in as part of the superproject to have to be fetched remotely.
-d
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