Re: git support for subprojects?

Luke.Powell@bjservices.com wrote:

Say that I have projects A and B which both depend on another project Z. 
Whenever I update one of those projects, I'd like to also update to the 
latest version of Z in a subdirectory. Is there that kind of support for 
these subprojects? If I'm not being clear, I'm talking about the kind of 
support that is available in Subversion through svn:externals or something 
analogous.

In the Git community the concept of a subproject is more powerful
than what you just described.  But we haven't implemented those
concepts yet in a released version (however there are prototypes
floating around for discussion).  ;-)

If all you want is an svn:externals type of hack, you can easily
write a wrapper script to cd into the subproject Z and run
`git pull`, merging in any recent changes from the upstream.

But we haven't automated that, as our concept of a subproject is
much more sophisticated and doesn't always mean update the subproject
to the latest version.

-- 
Shawn.