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  • Git submodules in N easy steps

    October 12th, 2008

    Git has something called submodule support. This allows you to specify one or more other git repositories within another – a bit like svn:externals (except trickier, but more powerful of course :).

    The git user manual describes submodules but it took me a while to figure it out, so I’m hoping these examples will help others (and me again when I forget and find my own page when googling about it :)

    These examples deal with your_project and the project you’ll be adding as a submodule, other_project

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    Tags: git, submodules, version control

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  • Graphical Git on GNU/Linux with Giggle

    April 27th, 2008

    Check out (pun!) Giggle, a graphical frontend for the git distributed revision control system.  Cute name and much lovelier than gitk. It’s pretty new but already does a lot, and more is planned.  See the screeny.

    Tags: git, gtk, revision control

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