Question

Suppose I have a base project (or framework) which provides features A, B and C. Then I have a second project, which extends the first project and adds feature F to it, and is used on it’s own.

Again, suppose I have a third project which extends the first one and adds feature G to it.

All these three projects can be used separately.

How should one manage this projects in git so that:

• Second and third projects update their own features while getting updates from the first project?
• The code is not duplicated?

For now, I just copy/paste the first project into the second and third project directory (in appropriate place), but this looks so ugly to me.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

git submodules is your way of managing this:

http://progit.org/book/ch6-6.html

Hope this helps. They get some time to get used to. Versioning of libraries that depend on one another are always tricky.