Creating a submodule in a git project

Question

Hi, I have a Django project and it's currently hosted in GitHub and it's private. I'm looking to move many useful parts of it into an open-source project. I think I need to use a 'submodule' thing, but unfortunately I have no idea how to operate these.

Please can someone help me :)

Joe

Answer 1

move many useful parts of it into an open-source project.

That means extract one or several directories (and their associated history) into several independant git repositories, each one pushed to a public GitHub repo.

• To extract a sub-directory from a Git repo, see the filter-branch command in this SO question
  (also in:

  • "Howto extract a git subdirectory and make a submodule out of it?"
  • Detach subdirectory into separate Git repository
    )
• to reference those new repositories, reference them in your original private repo to see them again directly from your current Django project: see true nature of submodules.