Maintaining Project with Git

Question

I have 2 project, and actually these 2 project is about 80% same each other, the mainly difference is just about language and business model, one is for larger audience using english language and have a 9$/month business model, another is using local language with freemium business model.

Sometime when I want to add new feature/functionality, I want to add it in both of the project, but also sometime I want to add feature especially just for the local project.

My question is, how do I maintain these 2 project with git ?

1. Maintain 2 git repository for each project or
2. Maintain single git repository with 2 mainly branch or
3. Any other suggestion ?

Answer 1

create three git projects:

• one "core" project: it contains the code shared between the other two projects

• your english project: it has a submodule for the core plus specific code

• your translated project: it also has a submodule for the core plus specific code

this way you can change your core project, update the submodule references and you'd be good