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Re: organizing multiple repositories with dependencies

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Date
Apr 16, 2012, 20:08 UTC
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Put reusable library in its own repository, and use submodules to link
> it up to project-a and project-b repositories.

git-subtree is another option. It was recently merged into contrib/. Whether to use submodules or subtrees largely depends on the work style of your group and how coupled the projects are to each other. submodules requires a bit more day-to-day maintenance by the user (in my experience) while with subtrees it's a bit more involved to push changes from the combined repository back to the separate repositories.

                              -Dave
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