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From: Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git remote vs. submodules
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:11:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=wT4aVfaw3ZSyqPgforOc3fBSLCP8CQMboFOva@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CDC04F7.6080801@dbservice.com>

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/10 3:44 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote:
>>> Are you maybe looking for a subtree merge?
>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html
>>
>> Yeah, that looks like it.  I never would have hit upon the read-tree
>> step by myself -- I would have just laid things out with the prefix
>> already embedded in the subprojects.
>>
>> Hmmm... it seems to me that feeding changes back to the subprojects
>> might be difficult (and that is born out by a comment at the end of
>> the page you referenced.)
>
> https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree, it makes exactly that easier.

That looks cool too!  Thanks.

--wpd

      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11  1:45 git remote vs. submodules Patrick Doyle
2010-11-11 11:34 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-11-11 14:44   ` Patrick Doyle
2010-11-11 15:00     ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-11-11 15:11       ` Patrick Doyle [this message]

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