From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <victor@bogado.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git submodules.
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:01:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428210139.GH26880@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209412220.29267.22.camel@omicron.ep.petrobras.com.br>
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:50:20PM -0300, Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <victor@bogado.net> 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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2008-04-28 19:50 git submodules Victor Bogado da Silva Lins
2008-04-28 21:01 ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
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2009-10-17 17:15 Steven Noonan
2009-10-17 17:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-10-17 22:30 ` Nanako Shiraishi
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2008-07-28 16:20 Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 16:23 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 20:23 ` Nigel Magnay
2008-07-28 20:55 ` Pierre Habouzit
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2008-07-28 21:40 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-28 22:03 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 22:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-28 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-17 20:13 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-08-17 22:54 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-17 23:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-18 0:46 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-28 22:32 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-28 23:12 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 5:51 ` Benjamin Collins
2008-07-29 6:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-07-29 8:18 ` Nigel Magnay
2008-07-29 8:45 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 8:21 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 8:37 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 8:51 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-29 12:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 13:07 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 13:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 13:19 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 13:31 ` Nigel Magnay
2008-07-29 14:49 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-29 14:53 ` Junio C Hamano
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2008-02-07 21:24 ` GIT submodules Rene Herman
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