Question

I know that current Git submodules are not supported by AppHarbor (as per this support ticket and I just did a quick test that confirmed it)

BUT, is there another way?

I currently have a GitHub repository that I want to use as my submodule’s remote master, and I need to create a number of other GitHub repositories that use this codebase (with the only changes happening inside the App_Data contents).

Using a Git submodule seems like a perfect solution, BUT, of course that problem is that its contents will not be deployed to AppHarbour.

So apart from creating a hard-copy (on the file system) of the master GitGub Repository, is there another alternative?

Answer 1

I actually found a better way to do this using Git SubTree Merge. That works much better than submodules, since I do want to be able to:

• have the local (merged) files there
• be able to make changes to then
• have the full history of the original repositories.

Here are more details about Git’s subtree merge:

• http://help.github.com/subtree-merge/
• http://progit.org/book/ch6-7.html