Question

I’m trying to setup a structure where I can have some shared code base across multiple projects, and need some advice on the best way to set it up.

I want to have a core set of ‘commonCode’.
Now, for different projects, I may place this code in different locations –

for example

project1
  config
  files
     /commonCode

project2
  config2
  somecode
     /commonCode

I also want project 1 and project 2, in addition to commonCode, source controlled.

I originally thought about doing all this in one big repository as different branches, but then couldn’t figure out an appropriate way to ‘checkout a branch into a folder’ (for example, sometimes I want commonCode in the files folder, sometimes in the somecode folder). I need this setup, so if I make changes to commonCode, I can merge it into the others.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I should set this up?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could use Submodules:http://book.git-scm.com/5_submodules.html