Re: Put part of working tree on another file-system.

[Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>]

Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net> writes:

> Sergei Organov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've a desire to put a sub-tree of my working tree into another
>> file-system. With CVS I've used symlink to achieve this. It works fine
>> with CVS as it doesn't care about directories and symlinks at all. I had
>> little hope it will work with GIT, but I've performed a test anyway. To
>> my surprise it almost worked, so I have a hope that maybe it's not that
>> difficult to support this. What do you think? Or maybe there is a
>> different way to achieve the goal with GIT?
>>
>
> I needed to do this in Cygwin, and saw the same behaviour. I worked
> around it by using cygwin's "mount" command to "mount" the other
> directory in Cygwin's namespace. With this done, cygwin does not
> detect a symlink (since there is none), and works as expected.
>
> With sufficient permissions, you can probably achieve the same effect
> with bind mounts perhaps (assuming Linux, of course).

Thanks for the idea, -- it seems to work.

[In fact it is Linux, and those "another file-system" is FAT32 partition,
so that, when rebooting to Windoze, this directory could be accessed from
there. I can't put all the working tree there as there are parts of the
tree that depend on file system being case-sensitive.]

-- 
Sergei.