git-remote-arc: archive-backed git submodules

USAGE

1. Download git-remote-arc to a folder located in your path:

sudo wget http://git.io/git-remote-arc -P /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/git-remote-arc

2. Configure git to allow arc protocol for submodules:

git config --global protocol.arc.allow always

3. Add submodules from any archive:

git submodule add arc::https://github.com/berenm/git-remote-arc/archive/master.tar.gz git-remote-arc

The script expects that wget or curl, and tar or 7za are available in the PATH. Archive type support depend on the available tools for extraction.

WHY

This can be an easy way to implement some kind of package management to your projects, instead of cloning full repositories.

Combined with git config diff.submodule diff to display changes in submodules, you can also track modifications done over dependencies sources.

Also, although you will not be able to push anything to the remote obviously, you can still add changes, branches and commits to the local submodule. Or add a normal git remote later on to push these changes.

git pull / git submodule update --remote will also work as expected and get the latest version of the archive if it was changed upstream. The change will be reflected by a different commit hash.

LICENSE

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

See accompanying file UNLICENSE or copy at http://unlicense.org/UNLICENSE