[chef] Anybody uses git subtree in a chef repo to development cookbooks separately from the production chef-repo ?

[Vladimir Skubriev < >]

Now I decide to choiche best method for creating and maintain a chef-repo.

When I started working with a chef I didn't using a chef-repo and starts 
development of my cookbooks in same directory in home.

For example: ~/chef-cookbooks

And there are my own cookbooks and community cookbooks.

Which is loading to the server via knife cookbook upload foldername.

My own cookbooks  development with mercurial cvs.

Site cookbooks git cloned or unpacked from tar.gz and has not modified.

Now I have come to the conclusion that I needed a chef-repo to store all 
my data in one place.

How I can store community cookbooks and my own cookbooks in chef-repo 
(In which folders they should be) ?

I can convert my mercurial repositories with a cookbooks to git repos 
and include them in the chef repo.

What do you think about this ?

Can I revice more flexibiliy and usabilty instead of many problems in 
this use case ?

And how to include community git clonned cookbooks in my future 
chef-repo(I want to use a berkshelf) ? Using a git sub trees or 
something else?

In general, I want to get a fully managed and flex system.

Anybody uses git subtree in a chef repo to development cookbooks 
separately from the production chef-repo ?

Excusme for bad english.

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Best regards,

CVision Lab System Administrator
Vladmir Skubriev