Hey all,
If you're like me and use git submodules heavily (I vendor everything, and every plugin is a submodule), you might like to hear about code published this morning to make it easier to manage multiple git submodules in a shared-server environment.
It's imaginatively titled 'git-rake', and it does Good Things like: * aggregates submodule commit logs into the superproject commit log * abbreviates output for git-status and other common commands (filters out what you don't need to see) * ensures you don't publish references to local-only submodule commits (which, if you haven't done it, is painful) * intelligently synchronizes all submodules with the shared repo server (no unneeded network requests) * allows arbitrary commands to be iterated over all submodules * a few other nice sanity checks and commands
If you think the rake tasks might be useful, or you're wondering why dealing with many submodules can be a pain, check out the announcement post: Flavor-iffic: Managing Git Submodules With git.rake
and, of course, the github project: http://github.com/mdalessio/git-rake/tree
<shameless-plug> We've been using it internally at my company, Pharos Enterprise Intelligence (http://www.pharos-ei.com/), for the last 5 months and it's been a huge timesaver for us (each of our client projects have 14+ submodules, so that's motivation for you). We've been looking for opportunities to open-source some of our code, and hey, this is where we're starting. </shameless-plug>
Comments welcome.
-m
