Re: How-to combine several separate git repos?

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Dec 9, 2007, 19:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712091445470.5349@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <475C3E25.30704@saville.com>

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Wink Saville wrote:

> Another option I was thinking would work for me would be to use
> submodules. But I'm not sure submodules are ready for
> neophytes and maybe it doesn't do what I want?

I think that submodules do what you want. And they may not be ready for neophytes to just use, but they're ready for neophytes to try using and tell us where things get confused. That is, I don't think git developers know of anything still wrong with submodules, so we need people to try using them and say "I can't use submodules now because...". Or, of course, the code might be fine now and the discussion just too intimidating.

In any case, if you create a new repository, and fetch stuff into it, and don't push stuff back, you can't screw up the original (obviously), so it should be safe and possibly informative to play around with submodules.

	-Daniel
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