How to nest git repositories?

I have a parent git repo which contains files common to my product. Now when I deploy I will need to add customizations based on the client I'm deploying for. The customizations lie at dif开发者_JAVA百科ferent parts of the parent structure as different sub-folders (a 'feature' of the framework I'm forced to use). Is it possible to split my repo into 'parent-repo', 'client1-customization', 'client2-customization' etc.

To make it clear: My directory structure is as below:

myproject
-- .git
-- web
   -- client1
   -- client2
   -- common
-- lib

I want it as:

myproject
-- .git
-- web
   -- client1
      -- .git
   -- client2
      -- .git
   -- common
--lib

How can this be achieved?

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Yes, if you use submodules. See the git community book for details.

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Ayende shared some experience about this topic and recommends git subtree over submodules

see below for further reference:

• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2011/01/10/the-problem-with-git-submodules.aspx
• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2011/01/10/git-subtree.aspx