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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: sub module branches
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:47:13 -0500
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mahesh Vaidya <forvaidya@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> I have a situation like
>
> project/source.git
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 /submod_1
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 /submod_2
>
> I need to modify code in all 3 repos viz. source, submod_1 & submod_2=
=2E
>
> If I create branch in source, will it propogate to remaining
> submodules ? or in other words can I have "global branch" and "global
> tag"

You could use git-subtree instead: http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtr=
ee

That will allow you to branch all the repos at once.  It slightly
increases the effort required to extract the changes and submit them
upstream again, though.

Have fun,

Avery