Re: git subtree: an alternative to git submodule

[Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's really a cool feature, but i havn't tried it. Why?
>
> It will spends me some time saving and applying the patches and then
> testing it (i don't have the appropriate environment setuped). But I
> am busy and there is no urgent need to use this feature ( it is only a
> rare case for me).  So i will wait until i need the feature or there
> is an easy to fetch the code ( pu of official reposotory or other
> repository with these patches applied).

Excellent, thanks for the feedback.  In fact you can git clone the
code from here:

  git clone git://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree.git

(It's not a copy of the git repo; it's a tiny standalone repo.)

The important file is 'git-subtree'.  Copy this anywhere on your PATH,
and magically the 'git subtree' command will work.

I admit that your next roadblock will probably be lack of
documentation, though, as Junio points out.

Have fun,

Avery