How can I track a template?
I am trying to create a standard module to be included into many projects. Specifically, the build system skeleton, but I have other uses for the same mechanism. The idea is to have a repository with the skeleton itself, and have other projects include it somehow and keep up-to-date by pulling from the template repository.
The straightforward approach of using 'git pull' does not work very well. At each merge, all the things changed show up. For example, I would change the project name in the configure template. This change creates a merge conflict on every pull even if that particular line did not change in the template. Somehow it just doesn't seem to establish a base for the merges. Another problem is that the tags get pulled and become tags on the project, which is undesirable.
What sort of a solution would you recommend for this, if any?
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Mike Sharov
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I am trying to create a standard module to be included into many projects. Specifically, the build system skeleton, but I have other uses for the same mechanism. The idea is to have a repository with the skeleton itself, and have other projects include it somehow and keep up-to-date by pulling from the template repository.
The straightforward approach of using 'git pull' does not work very well. At each merge, all the things changed show up. For example, I would change the project name in the configure template. This change creates a merge conflict on every pull even if that particular line did not change in the template. Somehow it just doesn't seem to establish a base for the merges. Another problem is that the tags get pulled and become tags on the project, which is undesirable.
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What sort of a solution would you recommend for this, if any?
Enable rerere, the merge resolution recorder/replayer. Pull from skeleton repo with --no-tags, and remove the tag-fetching refspec from your .git/config (note that everyone has to do it, but if only you integrate the updated skeleton that won't be a problem).
Or unconditionally include a project.mak (or some such) from the build skeleton which sets all the project-specific details.
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