Re: Notes on Using Git with Subprojects

hoi :)

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:55:22AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

My current approach is like this:

 * create a .gitmodules file which lists all the directories
   which contain a submodule.
 * the .git/refs/heads directory of the submodule gets stored in
   .gitmodule/<modulename> inside the parent project

Taking this a step further, you could make subproject/.git/refs/heads a 
symbolic link to .git/refs/heads/subproject, with the benefit that fsck 
Just Works.

in fact it is done this way (more or less).

Nevertheless, you have to take care of the fact that you need to commit 
the state of the root project just after committing to any subproject.

why?

You can accumulate as many changes in different subprojects until you
get to a state that is worth committing in the parent project.
All these changes are then seen as one atomic change to the whole
project.

-- 
Martin Waitz