Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
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Re: Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
#2What's the architecture of this idea? Is there a reasonable assumption that it would keep the complexity for maintainers low in 3+ repos having a relationship with each other? If so, how?
Re: Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
#3I like this idea and want to know more, but I wish the README.md actually told us how and what, instead of just why. I didn't want to watch an asciicast.
Re: Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
#4Hell I want this to be a standard
Re: Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
#5Is this similar to Android repo tool?
Re: Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
#6I like this idea and want to know more, but I wish the README.md actually told us how and what, instead of just why. I didn't want to watch an asciicast.
Thank you for the feedback, I'll update the README
EDIT: Updated
Re: Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
#7What's the architecture of this idea? Is there a reasonable assumption that it would keep the complexity for maintainers low in 3+ repos having a relationship with each other? If so, how?
Not sure I understand the question correctly, but here goes:
My personal bias is to keep using submodules or at least subtrees where possible, mainly because it's builtin and because it's written by smart people. This is mostly for when repositories are pretty big and you don't want to submodule/subtree the entirety. But that's just me.
I hope the maintainer complexity is as low as any other git solution, all the rebasing tools are just using standard git so there should neither be any advantages or disadvantages. The advantage of using this is to not check in everything into one repository (perhaps avoiding accidental modification of unrelated files that could cause merge conflicts).
Re: Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
#8Is this similar to Android repo tool?
I'm unfamiliar with that tool, so you tell me! Looks like it though, from what I'm reading, with the exception of keeping the internal configuration in a git-friendly format instead of huge XML.
Re: Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
#9Every so often I find it necessary to move things from one repo to another and preserve history along the way. I've made do with a janky shell script that recreates all the commits touching relevant files in the new repo, but this looks like a much less sketchy way to do it. It even sends changes back to the original repo if I understand the code right.
Re: Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
#10Every so often I find it necessary to move things from one repo to another and preserve history along the way. I've made do with a janky shell script that recreates all the commits touching relevant files in the new repo, but this looks like a much less sketchy way to do it. It even sends changes back to the original repo if I understand the code right.
Git can already do that with subtree, no other tools needed.