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by lioeters 694 days ago
Git Subrepo is another alternative to submodules and subtree.

> This git command clones an external git repo into a subdirectory of your repo. Later on, upstream changes can be pulled in, and local changes can be pushed back. Simple.

https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo

After trying many similar solutions, it gets the closest to what I want to achieve, which is nested Git repositories. A project with subprojects, each of which can be an independent Git repo with its own history to push/pull, while the project itself has the entire codebase and history.

It's written in Bash, so fairly portable.

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Edit: After skimming through the project vdm, I see the problems it aims to solve are different from what git-subrepo does. The latter is more about monorepos. Ah well, that's what I get for commenting before reading the post.

vdm does look useful for managing a project with external dependencies, which are Git repos owned by others or oneself. Maybe like a language-agnostic package manager.