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[Sébastien Alix <sebastien.alix@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

As a repository on GitHub (or Launchpad) can contain several modules 
(e.g. https://github.com/OCA/project-service/tree/7.0), I am wondering 
about the best way to deploy only one of them in a customer project 
without fetching all other modules of the repository, but keeping the 
link with upstream sources (to update this module from time to time 
inside our customer projects after tests and validation)?

What we are doing currently is copying the targeted module inside its 
own repository, and link it with our customer projects with 
subrepo/submodule (supported by Mercurial and Git). This way we can have 
two customer projects sharing the same module, but pointing on different 
versions (either two different versions of the same branch, or two 
different branches). The drawback is that we have to maintain our own 
repositories which are completely isolated from upstream sources, and 
it's not optimal as the number of repositories is growing.

How do you manage this? Is there a better approach to handle this kind 
of task? For the sake of simplicity, do you clone the whole repository 
and add it to the addons_path, even for one module?
Your advices and experience are welcomed!

Regards,

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Sébastien ALIX
ABF Osiell
Site: http://www.osiell.com