[pass] Git Submodules

[Kyle Marek-Spartz]

I've not ran into any issues with it yet. Perhaps the trick is having a
repo with just submodules for my system and then a separate personal and
work repository. What can/should be done to have `pass git` notice the
submodules more effectively?


Christoph Egger writes:

> Hi!
>
> George Angelopoulos <george at usermod.net> writes:
>> The only disadvantage I see in this is that it requires git, which is
>> otherwise optional. But if you're doing collaborative management, you're
>> probably using git.
>>
>> On 10/21/2014 06:50 AM, Kyle Marek-Spartz wrote:
>>> I saw the recent/ongoing thread about multiple password stores and
>>> wanted to share how I just set mine up. I have a separate gpg key and
>>> git repositories for my work and my personal accounts. I pull them in as
>>> submodules of my git repository for this computer's password-store. I
>>> could theoretically create a shared password store by creating a shared
>>> gpg key and setting a .gpg-id key for another submodule. The only
>>> drawback is the prefix for the password lookup, e.g. `pass my/password`
>>> and `pass work/password`. I think I prefer this approach to the
>>> switching multiple accounts since it is not modal. Are other people
>>> using submodules to manage multiple password stores or shared
>>> repositories?
>
> Jah, we're using it that way as well (several people here sharing a
> 'work' pass and having private ones next to it.
>
> Unfortunately `pass git` doesn't really work for submodule operations --
> seems you need to be in ~/.password-store for git to do submodule
> operations.
>
>   Christoph

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Kyle Marek-Spartz