Re: git support for subprojects?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2007, 01:11 UTC
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[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Luke.Powell@bjservices.com wrote:

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> Say that I have projects A and B which both depend on another project Z. 
> Whenever I update one of those projects, I'd like to also update to the 
> latest version of Z in a subdirectory. Is there that kind of support for 
> these subprojects? If I'm not being clear, I'm talking about the kind of 
> support that is available in Subversion through svn:externals or something 
> analogous.

Git currently doesn't have submodule (subproject) support, although this
topic appears from time to time on git mailing list. There are even two
prototypes of proper submodule support; link to one of those (heavyweight
one by Martin Waitz) can be found at
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SubprojectSupport
There is also lightweight submodule support proposal, but as author did
not put info in above page, and I don't have I think an URL saved...
It is I think what you might want.

But it should be fairly easy to cobble together something analogous
to broken[*1*] svn:externals with update hook...

> Also, please cc me in any answers since I'm not sure my subscription to 
> the list went through.

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitCommunity

[*1*] In short: you really, really want to bind/connect submodule commit (submodule version) to supermodule (main module) commit. E.g. you want to know for sure that v2.1.3 of your project pass all the tests and works with v0.2.1 of a submodule.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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