Is there any guidance for using pantsbuild with mu...
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some-farmer-97614
02/07/2022, 2:37 PMIs there any guidance for using pantsbuild with multi-repos that may have dependencies?
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happy-kitchen-89482
02/07/2022, 4:17 PMTo clarify the question, is this similar to https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C046T6T9U/p1644225676154729 ?
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some-farmer-97614
02/07/2022, 4:26 PMI think so, I didn’t have this particular mechanism in mind, but was looking for guidance how to use pants with multiple repositories. The options I could think of:
• Build packages and publish to and consume from language specific repositories
• Use git submodules and reference pants targets
• A pants specific mechanism like the http_archive for bazel
Just in general: What’s pants approach here?
some-farmer-97614
02/07/2022, 4:26 PMI was using submodules as I had some configuration files that I wanted to share across repositories
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witty-crayon-22786
02/07/2022, 10:33 PMcc @worried-bird-21785: bringing the conversation into this thread
witty-crayon-22786
02/07/2022, 10:34 PMthere is a (lightly used, so possibly a little bit rough) facility to support git submodules: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-global#section-subproject-roots
witty-crayon-22786
02/07/2022, 10:36 PMif your subprojects have compatible BUILD files to the parent project, you can add them as submodules, and then add those submodules to the
subproject_rootswitty-crayon-22786
02/07/2022, 10:36 PMbut when i say “have compatible BUILD files”, i mean: the
pants.tomlwitty-crayon-22786
02/07/2022, 10:38 PMas mentioned, this is rarely used: lots of folks are creating monorepos at the same time as they migrate to Pants, rather than creating multiple Pants repositories and then merging them.
witty-crayon-22786
02/07/2022, 10:38 PMbut it should work.
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some-farmer-97614
02/08/2022, 10:03 AMThanks, that’s great! Personally I’m not converting to using a monorepo, but want to use Pant’s to build a repo that is e.g. scoped to stuff that makes a “service in the cloud” like some lambda functions and a container and the deployment code for that.
some-farmer-97614
02/08/2022, 10:04 AMI don’t intend to merge it with the other repos it depends on.
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