How do you use git to sync an iOS project between multiple computers

Question

This is my first post, and I will try to give as many details as possible. Just let me know what information you need to help me clarify my question.

My current setup is as follows:

• Remote git repository on BitBucket ( https://bitbucket.org/ )
• Project source code on my laptop

I have a git setup for my project and can commit locally as well as make changes to the remote repo. I can clone a duplicate of my project to my laptop in the same folder, and it works great.

The problem that I am facing is that I now have an iMac that I would like to use for development, and when I clone my project from BitBucket, I can access everything from my source code, but lose access to third-party libraries (in this case Three20).

I tried re-linking the libraries on the desktop, but I cannot get it to link and build correctly.

What is the best way to synchronize the source code of my projects between my two computers and still use external libraries on each of them?

Answer 1

Take a look at chapter 6, section 6 of progit.org/book. If you include third-party libraries as submodules, you will not inflate your repository, while preserving which version of each library you use.