On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 5:06 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > looking for general opinions ... i am (frighteningly :-) teaching a > git course later this week, and one of the topics on the list is git > submodules, which was specifically requested by the client as their > idea of how to start incorporating child repos in new projects. > > however, given the number of articles written about the drawbacks > with submodules, i wanted to throw in a section about "git subtree" as > well, even though (as discussed earlier) there is some minor dispute > as to whether "git subtree" is part of "core" git, but i'm not going > to let that stop me. > > going even beyond that, there is also google's "repo" command, which > i seem to see more and more often, like here for automotive grade > linux: > > https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/source-code > > and it would be a shame to at least not mention that as yet another > possibility. Please note that Google would prefer to get rid of the repo tool. (It was made as a stop gap solution until submodules are good enough, i.e. have comparable UX compared to repo. But as you know stop gap solutions hold up for quite a long time reliably. :) repo has issues by itself, fundamental issues such as the data model, as well as minor things like complete lack of tests) > and then there are unofficial, hand-rolled solutions, like > "git-subdir": > > https://github.com/andreyvit/git-subdir > > given that the client does not appear to be wedded to any particular > solution yet, i'm open to recommendations or pointers to online > comparisons that i'll collect and post on a single wiki page, and they > can peruse the comparisons at their leisure. There are a couple of these. I came across these recently http://gitslave.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo > so ... thoughts? no need to be verbose, just links to decent online > discussions/comparisons would be massively useful. > > rday > > p.s. oh, pointers to well-designed usage of any of the above would be > handy as well. as i mentioned, for "repo", there's AGL. for > submodules, i might use boost: If your copy of Git is recent, look at the man pages for submodules such as d48034551a (submodules: overhaul documentation, 2017-06-22) or 4f73a7f124 (Doc/gitsubmodules: make some changes to improve readability and syntax, 2018-01-14) > https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Getting-Started > > and so on. thank you kindly. Stefan
