Subject: Re: git remote vs. submodules

From: Tomas Carnecky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:00:07 +0100

On 11/11/10 3:44 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Tomas Carnecky <[email-masked]> 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.

tom