On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:50:20PM -0300, Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <victor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there any documentation about how those work? Yes. There is a chapter in the user manual and there is the git-submodule manpage. > What I need is this, I have a already existing git repository, that have > a subdir that could be seen as submodule (by this I mean that he is > related, but could have a different commit tree). The git repository > already exists and has many commits that apply to either the submodule > or the main module (I would say that there is no commit that touch > both). So is it possible to separate them easily? Yes, see git-filter-branch. > Would it keep my older commits? Not really, git-filter-branch will rewrite history, so the commit hashes will change. Of course no code will be lost, but after such a migration, people will not be able to easily just pull.
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