Re: RFC: Folder Git

[Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>]

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?

jon.