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https://github.com/madnh/subgit

A shell script that manages a git repository within a git repository (not a git submodule)
https://github.com/madnh/subgit

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A shell script that manages a git repository within a git repository (not a git submodule)

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# subgit

You have a git repository, and the files are ignored. But maybe those ignored files are really important, and you want to manage them with git?

**subgit** is a tool that helps you manage git repositories within a git repository. Not a submodule of git but a separate git repo that exists inside the current git repo. Completely separate, only sharing working directory.

Let's say your repo is like this:

```
project-x/
├── index.js
├── .env <--- git ignored
└── .gitignore
```

Using **subgit**, you will create a bare git repo named `subgit` in the `.git` folder. You can use this repo to do anything, such as managing ignored files (`.env`, `docs/`, `.dev/`,...).

```
project-x/
├── .git/
│ └── subgit/
├── index.js
├── .env
└── .gitignore
```

`.env` file ignored by `.gitignore` in current git repo, but tracking by `.git/subgit` repo.

## Install

Just download [**subgit**](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/madnh/subgit/master/subgit) file, then put somewhere you can access in terminal.

Example: store in `$HOME/bin/` folder

```sh
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/madnh/subgit/master/subgit -O $HOME/bin/subgit

chmod +x $HOME/bin/subgit
```

## Usage

```
subgit [command]

Avaiable commands:
init Initialize a subgit repo

list List all subgit repos. Alias: `ls`

remove Remove a subgit repo, before remove will show confirm, type 'yes' to remove. Alias: `rm`

shell Enter subshell of subgit, this subshell already define GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
You can run commands like `git status`, `git commit`, `lazygit`,.. etc.

lazygit run lazygit on subgit. This is a shortcut for `subgit shell` then run `lazygit`. Alias: `lazy`

[git command] Other commands of git, like: status, branch, checkout, reset, push,... etc
```

## Environment variables

| Name | Desc |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `SUBGIT` | Name of subgit folder. If specified then target folder will be ".git/subgit-$SUBGIT", else ".git/subgit" |
| `IS_SUBGIT_SUBSHELL` | **subgit** use this env to indicated that current shell is in a subgit repo |

## Examples

### Create a subgit repo

```sh
subgit init
```

### Create a subgit repo with custom name

```sh
SUBGIT=foo subgit init
```

### List current subgit repos

```sh
subgit list

# or:
subgit ls
```

### Remove a subgit repo

#### Remove default repo

```sh
subgit remove
```

#### Remove custom repo

```sh
SUBGIT=foo subgit remove
```

### Open a subgit repo with Lazygit

```sh
subgit lazygit

# or
subgit lazy

# or
SUBGIT=foo subgit lazy
```

### Open a subshell in context of subgit repo

```sh
subgit shell

# or
SUBGIT=foo subgit shell
```

### Run git commands

```sh
subgit status
subgit add [file]
subgit add [file] --force
subgit commit
subgit push

# or
SUBGIT=foo git add status
```