Submodules should be the right solution. Subtrees are weird as hell even if they require less interaction. I wonder if anyone in the git team has considered do

Submodules should be the right solution. Subtrees are weird as hell even if they require less interaction. I wonder if anyone in the git team has considered doing any updates on the porcelain for them. edit: BTW, even though syncs may be separate (and let's be honest, they should be really infrequent). You can do the update/init thing in one command: git submodule update --init --recursive