Thank you. I will try the vcsh.

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 15:14:01 UTC+8, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote:
>
> On Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:19:06 AM UTC+1, Tony George wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a bitbucket private repo for dotfiles. This contains files like 
>> .vimrc and so on.
>> For Vim, I am using Pathogen. The plugins from GitHub are installed as 
>> Git Submodules. The instructions I used to set this up are similar to:
>> *http://vimcasts.org/episodes/synchronizing-plugins-with-git-submodules-and-pathogen/
>>  
>> <http://vimcasts.org/episodes/synchronizing-plugins-with-git-submodules-and-pathogen/>*
>>  
>>
>> Now, I have modified some of the plugins that are installed as 
>> submodules. Made commits inside the submodule:
>> cd .vim/bundle/snipmate.vim/
>> git add .
>> git commit -m "message"
>>
>> cd ~/dotfiles/
>> git add .
>> git commit -m "message"
>>
>> But when I push the main repo (dotfiles) to the bitbucket, it is not 
>> pushing up the changes I have made in the snipmate.vim.
>> How can I get the changes I make on the local machine no be pushed to the 
>> bitbucket repo?
>> At the same time, I would like to update the snipmate.vim plugin if there 
>> are updates in the original repo.
>>
>> Is it possible?
>>
>>
> I don't think submodules will propagate pushes from the host repository, 
> although there might be a way in submodules to configure such behavior. If 
> not, then you can at least make a hook in the host repository that does 
> this.
>
> Another way to approach this is to use a tool like myrepos to keep all the 
> repos in sync: http://myrepos.branchable.com/
>
> Taking it a step further, you can also use myrepos in combination with 
> vcsh, which is especially developed for handling dotfiles and other things 
> in your home directory: https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
>

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