Re: RFC: Folder Git

[Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Victor Engmark
> <victor.engmark@gmail.com> wrote:
> continue to other repositories.
>>
>> Issues:
>> * Don't know if anyone else has used it. Probably not, so there's
>> bound to be issues (especially since it's been changed quite a bit the
>> last couple days for this RFC).
>>
>
> Victor,
>
> Certainly seems like a common need. I had a similar solution which I
> used for a while.
>
> In the end, however, I found that creating a super-module in the top
> directory that contains
> the other git directories as git submodules allowed me to use a
> standard feature of git to achieve the same effect.
>
> So:
>
>    git submodule foreach git gc --aggressive
>
> I know this won't suit every use case, but it does work in an
> environment where the set of repos you are operating on have a degree
> of coherence and it makes sense to set up a submodule for them.  In
> this particular case this is the only reason why I use submodules - I
> don't use them for configuration management, for example, simply as a
> handy way to exploit git submodule foreach.
>
> Have you considered using git submodules in this way?

I didn't know you could use them this way, and it's a nicely "Gitonic"
way of doing it. I don't think this would fit my case, since the repos
are not much related and it's a more verbose solution which takes
longer to set up than copying a single script. A compromise could be
to set up a Git alias `sgit="git submodule foreach git"`, if that'll
work as expected.

-- 
Victor Engmark