Differences between git submodule and subtree

git git-submodules git-subtree
Nathan H picture Nathan H · Aug 2, 2015 · Viewed 85.9k times · Source

What are the conceptual differences between using git submodule and subtree?

What are the typical scenarios for each?

Answer

Feng picture Feng · Feb 22, 2016

submodule is link;

subtree is copy

Related questions

Easy way to pull latest of all git submodules

We're using git submodules to manage a couple of large projects that have dependencies on many other libraries we've developed. Each library is a separate repo brought into the dependent project as a submodule. During development, we often want to …

Read More
How to "git clone" including submodules?

I'm trying to put a submodule into a repo. The problem is that when I clone the parent repo, the submodule folder is entirely empty. Is there any way to make it so that git clone parent_repo actually puts …

Read More
How do I remove a submodule?

How do I remove a Git submodule? By the way, is there a reason I can't simply do git submodule rm whatever ?

Read More