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Superproject branch tracking?

DISCUSSION Jon Loeliger 2 participants 2 messages Jun 15, 2016

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Guys,

Can someone tell me what the current best practice to have a Git supermodule maintain a branch that is actively tracking a similarly named branch in all of the submodules?

That is, I want have a scenario where I would like the master branch of a super-project to always (or on demand) reflect the current HEAD of the master branch in each of the submodules.

Does anyone have a script up their sleeve that I can use as a hook in the super to notice updates to a submodule and cause it to scurry around the sub-modules and create a new (updated) commit in the super?

Thanks,
jdl

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Guys,

Can someone tell me what the current best practice to have a Git supermodule maintain a branch that is actively tracking a similarly named branch in all of the submodules?

That is, I want have a scenario where I would like the master branch of a super-project to always (or on demand) reflect the current HEAD of the master branch in each of the submodules.

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Does anyone have a script up their sleeve that I can use as a hook in the super to notice updates to a submodule and cause it to scurry around the sub-modules and create a new (updated) commit in the super?

Thanks,
jdl

Hello

Have you seen Shawn's repo tool?

    http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/10/22/3763214

It might not do *exactly* what you're looking for, but it is magical.

There's also a repo-discuss google group where repo-specific questions can be addressed.

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