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Reputation: 1184

Is there a good way to keep track of source code files duplicated in multiple projects?

Ideally I wouldn't want to have duplicates of the same or similar code in multiple locations, but sometimes I have to do it for distribution reasons, and some environments such as matlab don't support good code organization. Is there a good way to manage versions/updates of single source code files? I can think of git submodules and symlinks, but I was wondering if anyone has a more portable solution. I work with c/c++, matlab, and python mostly.

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

Rob Clayburn
Rob Clayburn

Reputation: 256

I've used subtrees which worked really well for me http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submodule-git-subtree/

The syntax for subtrees is somewhat long - so I wrote a couple of bash scripts to pull/push the library files

Generally I think they don't need symlinks as well. However I was developing a some library code for Joomla that required the library code to be placed in multiple folders across the site. To achieve this I had to symlink each folder in the subtree library to its corresponding location in the Joomla site's folder, this

Upvotes: 1

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