git reference common directory/repo

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Published on 2010-04-19T07:17:26Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 7:23 UTC
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Project layout:

/project_a
   /shared
/project_b
   /shared
/shared

project_a and project_b both need to contain the shared folder. With svn, we used svn:externalsand that worked fine, since svn can reference subdirs (with relative paths too). However, we moved to git and it seems to not support checking out subdirs.

Our solution now is to put project_a, project_b and shared all in different git repos, and use git submodules in project_a and project_b. However this seems much more complicated than one monolithic svn repo with svn:externals. What's the correct way to handle common elements in git?

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