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Git as a folder in an existing project [message #923106]

Tue, 25 September 2012 11:54

elric best
Messages: 6
Registered: June 2012

Junior Member

I'm new to git, so please forgive if this is naive.

I have an eGit web project, but i'd like to leverage git projects from other sources: (e.g. facebook api, google api, etc) It would be handy if i could just checkout a version of these as a subfolder.

Is this possible?

Am I going against the grain of how it's supposed to work, and should i be looking at it a different way?

thanks!

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Re: Git as a folder in an existing project [message #925283 is a reply to message #923106]

Thu, 27 September 2012 11:10

Matthias Sohn
Messages: 395
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Sounds like you should have a look at git submodules. But beware it's adding some complexity.

http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Working_with_Submodules

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Re: Git as a folder in an existing project [message #925543 is a reply to message #925283]

Thu, 27 September 2012 16:40

R Shapiro
Messages: 307
Registered: June 2011

Senior Member

Submodules might work but wouldn't it be just effective, and easier. simply to import the other repositories as Eclipse projects, wherever they happen to live? Generally that works fine, Even if for some reason the path needs to be referenced in a relative way, why not clone them as siblings of your repo, rather than sub-folders?

What's the advantage of using sub-folders?

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