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SVN's svn:externals To GIT's Submodule

Posted by kdawson on from the spur-lines dept.

mcnazar writes "Do you manage your Rails Plugins via svn:externals? Thinking of switching to Git but are concerned that Git lacks a direct equivalent of svn:externals? In this article I present a work-around or even IMHO a better solution than SVN's svn:externals."

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  1. Re:SVN branching a daunting task? by Atti+K. · · Score: 4, Informative

    Branching is easy. Merging them together again... well... What SVN lacks is merge tracking (a la ClearCase, for example - which is otherwise a horrible product, but that's not the point here). They plan to introduce it in 1.5, though.

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  2. Re:SVN branching a daunting task? by lagfest · · Score: 4, Informative

    Merge tracking is the main feature of 1.5, which, according to this guy, is in beta right now. He does a demo of it too.