[horde] GIT-submodules for horde (was: Re: Using GIT for Horde?)

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Thomas Koch <thomas at koch.ro>:

> Am Sonntag 25 Mai 2008 23:23:37 schrieb Chuck Hagenbuch:
> [SNIP]
>> However, here's a question that you or someone else might be able to
>> answer that would go a long way towards us being able to migrate to
>> GIT for Horde:
>>
>> With CVS, we can create this structure:
>> horde/
>>    imp/
>>    turba/
>>
>> ... where horde, imp, and turba are all modules checked out from
>> cvs.horde.org, where they are technically on the same level, but we've
>> put imp and turba inside horde. And CVS will happily update all of
>> these for us with a single cvs update command.
>>
>> It's pretty much impossible to emulate this with svn, which has put a
>> wrench in our ideas about migration to it. Can we do this with GIT? If
>> so, you might have a convert.
> I think you can do it very well with svn externals. But since svn should be
> history...
>
> I added a git submodule for every horde module inside the horde/horde
> repository. Now you can do:
>
> git clone git://git.koch.ro/git/horde/horde
> cd horde
> git submodule init
>
> foreach modules as MODULE // Only those you want to use
>   git submodule update $MODULE      // checks out the module
>
> Now there are some more things[1] to think about when actually  
> developing, but
> that's one way it could be done.
>
> [1] http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSubmoduleTutorial

Is it me, or does dealing with subprojects seem overly complicated?  
Need to update the subproject, push the change, and then update the  
superproject for each commit?  Maybe it's because I'm not familiar  
with git...


Thanks,
mike

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