How to use subtrees in a Team

Question

When I Add a subtree it all works great locally.  However it seems all the subree information is lost when it hits bitbucket, so a team member who clones the repository doesn't see the subtree info.

so I have :-

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Then I clone that somewhere else

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nothing.

So if a team member changes something in project "LetterA" they don't have it setup so they can push their change to the lib repository.

As far as I can tell, the only reason why sourcetree knows of subtrees is because it records in "sourcetreeconfig" that there are some.    But how do you share this with a whole team ?

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Filippo Bollini · Answer

I hit the same problem with subtrees and bitbucket. Does anyone have an answer?

QwazyWabbit · Answer

When Linus talked about Git at Google in 2007, one of the features he mentioned was its capability to handle repositories of repositories.

Keith Nicholas · Answer

submodules caused all kinds of grief when branching and merging and just feel clunky

However, I've abandoned subtrees now...  and gone with subrepos

https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo

It solves the problem really nicely ( though it is all command line, but pretty straight forward )