From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Pollak Subject: Re: dependable submodules Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <4D877A70.8070907@jku.at> References: <7vd3lmv2k1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git , apenwarr@gmail.com To: Daniel X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 21 17:27:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1hwq-0007B4-PC for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:27:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753714Ab1CUQ0z (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:26:55 -0400 Received: from email.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at ([140.78.3.58]:64129 "EHLO email.uni-linz.ac.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753689Ab1CUQ0x (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:26:53 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 474 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:26:53 EDT Received: from [192.168.168.60] (unknown [140.78.223.2]) by email.uni-linz.ac.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F29B849; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:18:56 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=ADDE9E08; url= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2011-03-20 Daniel wrote: [...] > So would it be correct to say that even though those files are > remotely fetched on a clone of the repository, they are actually > revisioned and stored in the super project? You might want to try Avery Pennarun's git-subtree, which seems to provide this functionality. It's at https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree.