Question

I want to amalgamate several github repo’s into a single “boilerplate” for use by our agency. For example, I want to combine the best practices of Paul Irish’ HTML5 Boilerplate with Nicole Sullivan’s OOCSS (among many other best practice frameworks).

I’d like to use the H5 boilerplate as a base starter github and then keep track of OOCSS within the CSS directory (obviously).

• root (html5 boilerplate starts tracking changes here)
  • css (oocss hub starts here)
  • js (gets updated from H5B)
    …. and so on

Periodically, I’d want to update this new github with the changes from both – and subsequent other hubs as and when. Is it possible to do with while maintaining my original folder structure? I’ve tried forking the H5B into a new hub and then creating a new “remote” inside the CSS folder but so far it hasn’t worked. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Have a look at submodules.