From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:13:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Notes on Using Git with Subprojects
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609271509240.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060927124604.GD8056@admingilde.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Martin Waitz wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:01:11PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > AFAICT this is not the idea of subprojects-in-git. If you have to track 
> > the subprojects in the root project manually anyway, you don't need _any_ 
> > additional tool (you _can_ track files in a subdirectory containing a .git 
> > subdirectory).
> 
> But then you loose the fine grained commits of your subprojects. You 
> only store the tree of the subproject when committing to the parent, not 
> the entire history.

The more I get told about subprojects (I don't have a use for them 
myself), the more I think you are right: subprojects should not be 
integrated deeply into git.

Ciao,
Dscho