Guides: Using git submodules to track plugins

Submodules allows you to manage subparts of a project in different git repositories and reference them in a “superproject” repository. Here is a link with a great example of submodule usage to track your plugins:

http://woss.name/2008/04/09/using-git-submodules-to-track-vendorrails/

Adding Rails as a submodule

git submodule add git://github.com/rails/rails.git vendor/rails

Once the submodule is added we need to register this submodule using `init`.

git submodule init

From now we can update all the submodules using the following command:

git submodule update