Hello to all git developers and users, we are dropping use of other SCMs for most of our projects during time and switch to GIT. The actual one is uLan protocol related stuff http://sourceforge.net/projects/ulan/develop git://ulan.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ulan/ulan This project provided more libraries and targets support used in other university and company projects. CVS allows to checkout some subset/directory for use in such case. The GIT does not support work with subtrees so we have split project into multiple submodules, but actual GIT submodules support makes committing and maintenance over whole tree a little painfull. So there are hackish helper scripts which made us work simpler and can be found usable by others as well git-sm-pull - runs git pull (by default) or other option or shell specified command for all subprojects. It is not necessary to stay in the project top directory, when invoked. If it can be instructed to work with top lever repository even if current working directory is inside subproject directory if option -w is specified. http://ulan.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ulan/ulan-top;a=blob;f=scripts/git-sm-pull;hb=HEAD Usage: git-sm-pull [options] [shell command] -w --whole find top repository for whole project -h --help help -p --pull pull in all submodules -P --push push in all submodules -s --status status in all submodules git-sm-pull - runs git gui (by default) or other option or shell specified command for all subproject where status reports that repository is not clean. http://ulan.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ulan/ulan-top;a=blob;f=scripts/git-sm-commit;hb=HEAD Usage: git-sm-commit [options] [shell command] -h --help help -w --whole find top repository for whole project -m --message specify commit message on command line -a --all commit all changes in tracked files -s --status show status The second stript can be used without parameters or with -w to do select and commit changes interactively or if option -m and/or -a are used int runs git commit. You can find quite strange trickeries there to propagate correctly multiple word arguments through shell/bash there so it works as expected. git-sm-commit -> invokes GUI for modified submodules and for top finally git-sm-commit -a -m "my change" -> commits changes in all tracked files in all submodules with provided message and then does toplevel commit which should ensure submodules versions tying git-sm-commit qgit -> runs know fancy viewer for each modified submodule and for top finally The other git commands can be specified as well, so git-sm-commit can be little misleading after script evolution from original single purpose version, but commit preparation is it main use still. Thanks for git and may it be that these scripts can be usable for some other users, Pavel Pisa e-mail: pisa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www: http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa university: http://dce.felk.cvut.cz/ company: http://www.pikron.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html