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From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad•com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
Cc: picca <picca@synchrotron-soleil•Fr>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: tracking a file from another project in my own project
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:30:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ii17opo.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fxwplw1i.fsf@roke.D-201> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Tue\, 22 Jan 2008 07\:23\:28 -0800 \(PST\)")

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com> writes:
> picca <picca@synchrotron-soleil•Fr> writes:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:

[...]

>> > Or "merge -s subtree".
>> 
>> I read the git help merge -s explanation but I do not understand how
>> it can help in my case.
>
> Using subtree merge strategy you can join histories of your project
> and git.git, embedding git.git as a subdirectory like gitk and git-gui
> are now in git.git.  It is an alternative to using submodules.

Is subtree merge strategy documented?

$ grep subtree Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
$

-- Sergei.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-22 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-22  8:35 tracking a file from another project in my own project picca
2008-01-22  9:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-22 13:56   ` picca
2008-01-22 15:23     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-22 17:30       ` Sergei Organov [this message]
2008-01-22 18:34         ` Jakub Narebski

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