Re: Composing git repositories

Seth Robertson wrote:

In message [ref], Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:

    As a user inexperienced with recursive submodules (I've only used them
    in this repository), I found it highly confusing.  Thanks for clearing
    them up.

You may want to investigate third party alternatives like gitslave
http://gitslave.sf.net Depending on what problem you are trying to
solve, it can be better (or worse) to use compared to submodules.

I'm not looking for yet another specialized tool for my special
combined-repository workflow.  I'm looking to build one generalized
tool that will be able to do various kinds of compositions equally
well.

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Thanks.  I learnt one more workflow that people want to use.

It's one large Perl script.  Quite an involved hack.