We’ll contrast subtrees with submodules whenever relevant if you have read the article in question, that’ll help you better internalize these details. In particular, it is important that you assert you don’t have a choice and must resort to submodules or subtrees instead of a clean, versioned dependency management (which is always better, when doable). So here’s the promised article! If you haven’t read the submodules-related one, I urge you to read it first, if only to be able to contrast and compare both in a useful way, and to grasp the core needs better. You should look at the awesome git-subrepo project instead if you want that kind of goodness.Īs before, we’ll dive deep and perform every common use-case step by step to illustrate best practices. Update March 25, 2016: I removed all the parts about our now-deprecated git-stree tool. Cette page est également disponible en français.Ī month ago we were exploring Git submodules I told you then our next in-depth article would be about subtrees, which are the main alternative.
