gitaarik

Git Submodules basic explanation

Why submodules?

In Git you can add a submodule to a repository. This is basically a repository embedded in your main repository. This can be very useful. A couple of usecases of submodules:

• Separate big codebases into multiple repositories.

tnbred

#!/usr/bin/ruby                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

require 'json'
require 'emr/common'
require 'digest'
require 'socket'

def run(cmd)
  if ! system(cmd) then
    raise "Command failed: #{cmd}"

ThaJay

Git Submodules basic explanation

Why submodules?

In Git you can add a submodule to a repository. This is basically a repository embedded in your main repository. This can be very useful. A couple of advantages of using submodules:

• You can separate the code into different repositories.