On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All the submodules have
> to get pushed to and fetched from the same repo by default. Anything
> else is insane.
...and just to clarify, by far the least insane option here is to have
the whole thing all under a single ref, which is currently impossible
with submodules.
>> What's missing from that (which would be nice) is the ability to check
>> out a subdirectory from another repository. That could (I think) be
>> done by just adding a normal "tree" entry, and then specifying that
>> that tree can be found in git://... instead of the main tree.
>
> Actually that's already easy with submodules (and git-subtree makes it
> easy too, though slightly different). Just fetch the commit from the
> other repo, and do:
>
> git checkout FETCH_HEAD -- subdirname
Sorry, that's not right. You can use this instead for roughly the
effect you want:
git read-tree --prefix subdirname FETCH_HEAD: && git checkout subdirname
Have fun,
Avery
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