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Assaf Mendelson

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Feb 28, 2012, 1:46:37 AM2/28/12

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Hi,

We are migrating from svn to git and use gitextensions as our GUI interface to git.

A main problem we encountered was moving from svn:externals to sub modules.

Basically, the problem is that sub modules are not transparent and have a lot of issues. They seem to be designed for periodically updating from rather than continuous development from both sides (we use them to synchronize two different development teams) and both sides regularly commit to the submodule (requiring the other team to update…)

So we thought of using the git-submodule-tools available at https://github.com/kollerma/git-submodule-tools but we do not know how to integrate them with gitextensions (e.g. use git-rcommit instead of git-commit).

What is the best practice of doing so?

Of course, if there are other solutions to the problem, they will be greatly appreciated.