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"Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> writes:

> I'd like to make 1 git repository Progs with xxxx and yyyy as child trees.
>
>           Progs/.git
>           Progs/xxxx
>           Progs/yyyy
>
> Does this sound useful to anyone else, or is it already possible?

I would do it like this:

           Progs/.git
           Progs/xxxx/.git
           Progs/yyyy/.git

I do not know what you have in Progs/ hierarchy -- if it is just
scaffolding to house subdirectories and nothing else you may not
even need Progs/.git repository.

This is a very useful and handy structure, and you do not need
any tool support once you have these as separate repositories.
If you want a single distribution point, you can push from these
separate repositories into separate branches of a single
distribution point repository [*1*].

One potential disadvantage is that you would not get revision
linkage between these "modules", but not having tight linkage is
the point of modular structure, so depending on your workflow it
probably may not matter.


[Footnote]

*1* In fact, my git working area has the "master", "next" or
"pu" branch checked out in /path/to/work/area/git (and the
repository is in /path/to/work/area/git/.git directory), and I
check out the "todo" branch in /path/to/work/area/git/Meta
directory, with /path/to/work/area/git/Meta/.git directory as
its repository.