You should look into submodules.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html
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On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:28 PM, trans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi--
>
> I have a project with a number of sub-projects in it. I want each sub-
> project to have it's own git repo, but at the same time I want to keep
> them "together". GitHub doesn't really facilitate this kind of
> structure. So I also have a Rubyforge project for the master project,
> but Rubyforge only offers a single git repo per project, so having a
> git repo for each subproject won't work there. So I've been stuck,
> trying to figure out how to accomplish both ends. Tonight I struck
> upon and idea that I thought for sure would not work, but to my
> surprise it seems to work fine.
>
> I initialized a git repo for each subproject, than moved up to the
> master directory and initialize a git repo there too. The repo at the
> top does not seem to mind the repos in the subdirectories and just
> ignores the .git directory. So it would seem I can keep the individual
> repos I want for the subprojects and at the same time keep a master of
> all of the sub-projects in single git repo.
>
> Like I said, I'm surprised this seems to work. Is it really true? Can
> I really do this without incident? Does anyone have any experience
> with this setup. And even if it's workable in practice, is it a wise
> idea from a management standpoint?
>
> Thanks.
> Trans.
>
> >
>
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