Re: Avery Pennarun's git-subtree?

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 17:15, Bryan Larsen <bryan.larsen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using Avery Pennarun's git-subtree
> (http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree) for a while now and have been
> finding it very useful and problem-free.
>
> Git submodules have been particularly problematic for me on a project which
> contains submodules which contain submodules.  git-subtree "just works",
> without any futzing.
>
> We've also had problems with less git savvy users dropping patches because
> they've occurred inside of a module.

What sort of workflows do you find bad with git-submodule that are
better with git-subtree?

The submodule concept is simple, but a lot of the implementation is
bad IMO. It doesn't integrate well, e.g. you have to remember to do
git clone --recursive, or git clone and git submodule update --init
after that, submodules don't remember what branch you wanted, so git
submodule foreach 'git pull' doesn't DWYM (although I have a hack for
that) etc.

I've also wondered if we couldn't just store all the heads .gitmodules
point to inside the main .git repository, and just git gc them when
submodules are removed.

I'd planned to maybe submit patches to fix some of these UI issues,
knowing about more of them would help. I also haven't tried
git-subtree.