Git inside Git
I use janus → and oh-my-zsh → to setup a part of my dotfiles configuration.
My dotfiles → configuration
is setup as a git repository and because the aforementioned frameworks
are git repositories themselves, I was faced with the task of setting up
git inside git! Since I have used svn externals before, I was sure
there must be a way to do this. It turned out to be called git
submodules →
To clone a submodule in the local path of your git repository -
[root-repo] >> git submodule add <remote repository> <local path>
To update the submodule
[root-repo] >> git submodule update
A new git clone requires reinitializing the submodules.
>> git clone <root-repo>
[root-repo] >> git submodule init
[root-repo] >> git submodule update
To pull recent changes from all the submodules at once.
[root-repo] >> git submodule foreach git pull origin master
