git and maybe monorepo
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Posted on February 16, 2024
hey,
after some googling about "monorepos" topic, i think i found something interesting that i wanted to share.
we will use git config
and git subtree
.
the 1st problem is how to not to loose repo, from which i found code ( submodules does that, but not subtree )
What i found is, that git knows how to to include another config into .git/config so repo could carry remotes around as text file in repo
git config --local include.path ../.gitconfig
this command - adds ../.gitconfig to ./.git/config
than we can use custom alias from .gitconfig which adds remote repo to .gitconfig as "remote [origin] and calls git subtree
command. Here is an example:
git rst path/to/subtree remote_or_url branch [--squash]
this will create git remote add -f path/to/subtree remote_url
and calls git subtree add --prefix path/to/subtree path/to/subtree [branch] [flags]
and the base of .gitconfig in repo:
# run this command to add a remote to the .gitconfig file
# > git config --local include.path ../.gitconfig
# > git rst path/to/subtree remote_or_url branch [--squash]
[alias]
stpush = "!f() { a1=$1; a2=$2; git subtree push --prefix \"$a1\" \"$a1\" \"$a2\"; }; f"
stpull = "!f() { a1=$1; a2=$2; git subtree pull --prefix \"$a1\" \"$a1\" \"$a2\"; }; f"
rst = "!f() { a1=$1; a2=$2; shift;shift; a3=$@; git subtree add --prefix \"$a1\" \"$a2\" $a3; git config -f .gitconfig --add remote.\"$a1\".url \"$a2\"; git config -f .gitconfig --add remote.\"$a1\".fetch \"+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*\"; }; f"
Posted on February 16, 2024
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