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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Wong <andrew.w@sohovfx.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: How to manage multiple repos using submodules?
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:20:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110416182053.GA11017@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA9C7A7.4010503@sohovfx.com>

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Wong wrote:

> It seems like submodule isn't meant for this, but many people seems
> to use submodule to link many smaller repos together. With this
> setup, I imagine whenever someone pushed a small repo, they're
> /supposed/ to push the big repo as well. This way, if I simply
> update the big repo and do a "git status", git will tell me that
> which of the smaller repos are out of date.

Yep, if you want to keep track of the state of a bunch of repos over
time, submodules are not so bad[*].  In practice, often one instead
wants to keep a bunch of repos up-to-date, and all this meta-history
tracking is overkill.

I'd suggest using the mr tool.  Some projects (e.g., the
debian-installer project) are using it to help people keep all their
repos up to date.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-16 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-16 16:45 How to manage multiple repos using submodules? Andrew Wong
2011-04-16 18:20 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-04-17  6:48   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-17 18:42     ` Andrew Wong
2011-04-19 13:18   ` Phil Hord

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