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Implement Clone-as-Submodule feature
Background
There are some needs to manage your ghq root as git repository, for syncing your local stubs, etc.
Changes
This PR changes the default behavior of ghq get
like:
- Check if the target directory is inside git worktree of another git repository.
- If so, use
git submodule add
instead.
Thanks for the pull request. It's an exciting idea to git manage the whole ghq root, but I don't hear much else about the need for it, and honestly, I'm not so positive about including this feature. I'll stay open to it for a while, but if no one appears who agrees with this feature, I'll close it later.
Thanks for reply. I am considering following situations.
- Using multiple devices (for example, note pc and desktop pc)
- I want to manage local repos, which I am working now.
-
~/ghq
directory is a git repo (origin
is set to my github.com private repo) (local repos managed in~/ghq/
may be anything, like my public repo, my private repo or other's public repo (just looking at).) - I can sync the working state between devices, using push/pull mechanism and working branch.
- Here, 'working state' is repos which I am working on, and working branches which I'm creating temporary commits in.
- Using 3rd-party automatic file sync (like Dropbox) may break local repos.
- Using tools like
rsync
is troublesome, and lack of collision fixing.
I think working directly on ~/ghq/
is enough considerable, but someone may have different opinions.
If there is any other way (or reason why this example is unsound), please let me know.