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[Roland Siegbert <roland.siegbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Myles,

thank you for this one. :-)

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Myles English <mylesenglish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just a note to say that if FEniCS is going to move to git (yes please)
> and consider 'git submodule' then you would benefit from looking at 'git
> subtree'.  I am just going to quote the man page:
It's even already included into git since git-1.7.11, though it seems
to be quite young! Workstation here: LM14 w/ git-1.7.10.4 - however,
there is a origin/hack: https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree.

I really like that this approach, as it seems to be free of any
overhead and it is even possible to "export" the commits done in the
monolithic repo to the subtree repo.

Roland


Further reading for anybody interested:

[1]: http://log.pardus.de/2012/08/modular-git-with-git-subtree.html

It seems they had a similar problem at the Horde Project.