hi, i saw several "is there any step by step howto on how to use git submodules?" question on irc, and as far as i think there is none available at the moment here is how i use it at the moment: $ mkdir lib $ cd lib $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ $ echo "libmakefile" > Makefile $ dg add Makefile $ git commit -m "libmakefile" Created initial commit 57c1dce: libmakefile 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Makefile $ cd .. $ mkdir main $ cd main $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ $ echo "main makefile" > Makefile $ git add Makefile $ git commit -m "main makefile" Created initial commit 8935291: main makefile 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Makefile $ git submodule add ../lib lib Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vmiklos/scm/git/sub/main/lib/.git/ 0 blocks $ git commit -m "added lib submodule" Created commit 9dbfedf: added lib submodule 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .gitmodules create mode 160000 lib $ cd .. $ git clone main cloned Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vmiklos/scm/git/sub/cloned/.git/ 0 blocks $ cd cloned $ git submodule init Submodule 'lib' (/home/vmiklos/scm/git/sub/lib/.git) registered for path 'lib' $ git submodule update Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vmiklos/scm/git/sub/cloned/lib/.git/ 0 blocks Submodule path 'lib': checked out '57c1dce0e083e9ee50d06111d6aa1523116c2e15' $ cat Makefile main makefile $ cat lib/Makefile libmakefile my questions: 1) is this correct? :) i use it and it seem to do what i except, but maybe it's not correct 2) does this worth adding to the documentation? maybe to a .txt under Documentation/howto? or to git-submodule.txt? thanks, - VMiklos
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