#git (2020-03)

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I don’t want to put git related questions out in #general so I created this channel instead. Crazy? Perhaps, but so is git sometimes.

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That being said…. I’m curious how my fellow devops practitioners are managing projects with several git repos (sometimes several dozen in my case)? I’ve found that git submodules obfuscate a repository so I tend to minimize using them.

Right now I tend to create an ‘umbrella’ repo which contains a Makefile to pull down the project’s repos into a schema broken down by category (which is usually one category per team on the project then a few extras like platform, infra, and environment)

It seems like I’m missing a tool that may do the job more succinctly than that though?

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avoid the submodules. I had big troubles with them, breaking the CI/CD process because the development team didn’t understand fully how the submodules works (heck neither I fully understand)

so we’re running with for loops

we’re running with about 40 different repos.

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Yea, submodules are a red-herring. They look like the “perfect solution” to meld poly repos into one repo as necessary, only very few know how to use them in practice. I confess having used them many times, but always forget the syntax and always regret it after the fact. The Makefile with a target to check out the repos is just so much more straight forward!

Here’s an example using a Makefile https://github.com/cloudposse/actions/blob/master/github/Makefile

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https://georgestocker.com/2020/03/04/please-stop-recommending-git-flow/

Great article. It took some time for me come to some of the same realizations

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