subgit

subgit

#!/usr/bin/env sh

# subgit
#
# A tiny wrapper around git to help you manage 
# Git sub-projects easily, safely, and simply.
#
# Created by Rusty Klophaus (@rklophaus)
#
# See http://rklophaus.com/subgit for usage.

if [ "$1" == "setup" ]; then
	if [ -d ".git" ]; then
		mv .git .subgit
		echo "Converted to a subgit repository."
		exit 0
	else
		echo "Could not find .git directory."
		exit -1
	fi
fi

DIR=`pwd`
while [ ! -d "$DIR/.subgit" ] && [ ! "$DIR" == "/" ]; do
	DIR=`dirname $DIR`
done

if [ $DIR == "/" ]; then
	echo "Not in a subgit repository!"
	exit -1
fi

git --git-dir=$DIR/.subgit "$@"

Thanks for the script, really needed it :)

Just one thing, it does not work for me on Ubuntu 10.04 unless I change the shebang line to use bash instead of sh. Thought you might want to know :)

If you remove the "==" bashism, it'll work in any POSIX shell (like Dash).

Does anyone know a way to get bash tab completion to work with this? I've been trying to get it to work for a while now with no success.

For anyone who wants to use this script, I'd recommend changing line 33 to
git --git-dir="$DIR/.subgit" --work-tree="$DIR" "$@"
otherwise it doesn't work properly if you're in a subdirectory within the subgit repo.