Installing Git Subtree From Sources
Git subtree is a git helper to combine and manage multiple repos in one project.
This article describes how to install git subtree on Ubuntu 12.04 OS.
Since subtree is mostly collection of shell scripts and was introduced in moved to contrib package as part git version 1.7.9.11.The latest version of git available from standard sources on Ubuntu 12.04 is 1.7.9.5.Hence we will build and install the latest version of git from sources
Dependencies
Prior to installing git we need to install some dependencies
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev build-essential
Compile Git Modules
Get the git sources from enter link description here
make prefix=/usr/ all
Install Git
For a global install it using /usr and /usr/local prefixes
sudo make prefix=/usr/ install
Compile and Install git contrib
- Go into the
git/contrib/subtreedirectory - Build and install git subtree
make sudo make prefix=/usr install
Configure a subtree
We have created a repository called root
we will configure the git respository adroid as subtree in root repository
git remote add adroid git@github.com:pyVision/adroid.git git subtree add --prefix=adroid/ adroid master
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First the repository of sub-directory is added as remote of the present repository
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The git subtree add command tells git to add that repo’s code into a path in the parent’s project, specified by prefix in this case
adroid.The last prefixmasteris the branch you are pulling code from.
A complete reference for git subtree management can be found at enter link description here