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Subject: Re: Publishing "filtered branch repositories" - workflow / recommendations?
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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> wrote:
> Without knowing more I can't think of a reason why submodules should
> not suit your use case (but you'd have to script branching and tagging
> yourself until these commands learn to recurse into submodules too).

The submodules feature is way too fiddly and has abundant gotchas.

I am diving into subtrees, and finding it a lot more workable.

cheers,



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