Re: RFC: Folder Git

From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 25, 2011, 08:52 UTC
Message-ID: <BANLkTimnyv_+NCc3yOSswJeqHo_zsGwCDA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim=xKxN9JovToVuOg=SQ2Mba1LvxQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com> wrote: continue to other repositories.

Show 6 quoted lines

>
> Issues:
> * Don't know if anyone else has used it. Probably not, so there's
> bound to be issues (especially since it's been changed quite a bit the
> last couple days for this RFC).
>

Victor,

Certainly seems like a common need. I had a similar solution which I used for a while.

In the end, however, I found that creating a super-module in the top directory that contains the other git directories as git submodules allowed me to use a standard feature of git to achieve the same effect.

So:

    git submodule foreach git gc --aggressive

I know this won't suit every use case, but it does work in an environment where the set of repos you are operating on have a degree of coherence and it makes sense to set up a submodule for them. In this particular case this is the only reason why I use submodules - I don't use them for configuration management, for example, simply as a handy way to exploit git submodule foreach.

Have you considered using git submodules in this way?

jon.