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Re: organizing multiple repositories with dependencies

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2012, 14:30 UTC
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Namit Bhalla <namitbhalla@yahoo.com> writes:
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> I am looking to track some projects using Git with each project as a 
> separate repository.
> Even after reading the documentation, I am still wondering if there is a 
> way to organize things as described below.
> 
> Consider 2 projects, Project-a and Project-b, which are housed in 
> repositories Repo-a and Repo-b respectively. 
> Project-a develops reusable libraries which are needed by Project-b 
> (otherwise Project-b will not compile).
> When a new stable version of Project-a libraries has to be delivered, they 
> are "checked into" a path in Repo-a.
> Now, I would like to setup Repo-b so that when someone starts working on 
> Project-b, he should be able to retrieve the code from Repo-b as well as the libraries from Repo-a. Is there any way to achieve that in 
> Git?

Put reusable library in its own repository, and use submodules to link it up to project-a and project-b repositories.

HTH
-- 
Jakub Narebski
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