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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Project- vs. Package-Level Branching in Git
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Hauk <tom@shaggyfrog.com> wrote:
> Git just doesn't seem to scale when it comes to componentized projects.

With git the canonical approach, such that it is, is for each
component to be its own repo. You then tie the repos together into a
project using submodules:

- http://progit.org/book/ch6-6.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html

However, submodules can be a challenge to work with, and so there have
been other attempts at tying multiple repos together such as:

- http://source.android.com/source/git-repo.html
- https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree

j.