Git submodule replacement recommendation

[sberney]

I have an existing monorepo that uses git that's nicely(-ish) set up already. One pain point with git has been trying to share parts of my repo with others (occasionally) without sharing the whole thing. I have been able to use submodules and subtrees for the most part.

What would be a reasonable way to handle that kind of situation without just avoiding it in the first place?

Side note: I noticed sapling wouldn't operate on an already checked out git repo, so I checked it out from source, figured out what files it generated, and copied the .sl folder into my existing checkout. I see that there are a lot of git artifacts that are not ignored by sapling. Is there a way to hide those, eg .saplingignore?

[quark-zju]

Just to be clear, the use-case is:

• There is a repo called "A" that includes submodule repos "B", "C".
• Alice has access to "B" but not "C".

And you're looking for:

• Alice can use "A", and initialize submodule "B" but keep "C" uninitialized.

Not:

• Create another repo "A2" for Alice to use. The "A2" repo only includes submodule "B", not "C"

?

[quark-zju]

Or are you looking for subtree or submodule commands equivalent?