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tswaters / git-subdirectory-tracking.md
Last active October 30, 2024 12:55
Adding subdirectory of a remote repo to a subdirectory in local repo

This is way more complicated than it should be. The following conditions need to be met :

  1. need to be able to track and merge in upstream changes
  2. don't want remote commit messages in master
  3. only interested in sub-directory of another repo
  4. needs to go in a subdirectory in my repo.

In this particular case, I'm interested in bringing in the 'default' template of jsdoc as a sub-directory in my project so I could potentially make changes to the markup it genereates while also being able to update from upstream if there are changes. Ideally their template should be a separate repo added to jsdoc via a submodule -- this way I could fork it and things would be much easier.... but, it is what it is.

After much struggling with git, subtree and git-subtree, I ended up finding this http://archive.h2ik.co/2011/03/having-fun-with-git-subtree/ -- it basically sets up separate branches from tracking remote, the particular sub-directory, and uses git subtree contrib module to pull it all togther. Following are

@rawbitrec
rawbitrec / HelloWorld.cpp
Last active September 27, 2015 06:48
Ye Olde Sea Pluss Pluss!
//created by Eliot Lash and Robert Muller on 10/3/10
//copyright Eliot Lash and Robert Muller 2011
//Welcome to Ye Olde Sea Pluss Pluss!
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include "olde.h"
#define normal