Having multiple eclipse project in one Github repository [closed]

Question

I want to develop a multi-platform game using libGdx (for Desktop and Android).To share my work with some friends, I created a GitHub repository.

In ecplise, I have 3 different projects :

• MyProject-core (most of the game)
• MyProject-desktop (specific desktop code)
• MyProject-android (specific android code)

I want to push them in my Github repository in 3 different folders. Basicaly, I want my repository to look like this :

MyRepository

• /core/
• /desktop/
• /android/
• README.md
• LICENCE.md

My question is, Should I use 3 different local git repositories, or should I just use 1 large repo?

Answer 1

It seems like you may want to use Git submodules.

You can have 1 main repo, with each of the other folders being a submodule, which is just a separate repo you pull down on checkout.

When pulling down your main repo you would do git submodule init which pulls down the other 3 repos/submodules.

The benefit of doing this instead of just having 1 repo with these 3 folders is that each repo with different codebases is essentially its own project, with its own language and set of issues.