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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anne Gentle" <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>
> To: "Summer Long" <slong at redhat.com>
> Cc: openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:46:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-docs] Ops guide question
> 
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Summer Long <slong at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >  Thanks Sean. Unfortunately, can't use XI includes, because the Ops guide
> > is in a separate repo at this time. :(
> > That it, unless you or someone else has a workaround for that?
> >
> >
> The workaround the -infra team uses for other projects is to shallow clone
> the git repo so that the content is nearby for that build. I'm trying to
> learn more so we can use other repos in the same manner.
> 
> Anne

I believe you can use git submodules to achieve this. See:

    http://git-scm.com/book/ch6-6.html

I'm only just experimenting with them myself for another use case I have so don't have anything more to add on pros/cons just yet :).

Thanks,

Steve