Re: Question about handling of heterogeneous repositories

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:22:28AM CET, I got a letter
where Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> said that...
> Andreas Ericsson, Tue, Nov 22, 2005 20:40:50 +0100:
> > >it is sometimes the case that a project consists of parts which are
> > >unrelated to each other, and only thing in common between them is that
> > >they all are used in that particular project. For example a program
> > >uses some library and the developer(s) of that program would like to
> > >have the source of that library somewhere close. Well, for this simple
> > >example one could just use two repositories, laid close to each other
> > >in a directory, like project/lib and project/prog.
> > >Now, if I make the example a bit more complex and say, that the
> > >developers of the program are the developers in that project and
> > >change everything under project/ directory, including
> > >project/library/. They are also good people and ready to give the
> > >changes to the library upstream.
> > >
> > >How do they achieve that, without sending project/ and project/program/?
> > >
> > >For everyone who have an experience with ClearCase or Perforce (I'm
> > >sorry for mentioning it) it is what the "mappings" are often used for:
> > >a project is build together from different parts, which can be worked
> > >on separately.
> > >
> > >I'm trying to introduce git at work, but have to prepare myself for
> > >possible questions first, and this is one of them :)

This is something e.g. Cogito wants to support, but does not yet.
Patches welcome.

> > It would certainly be nicer to have git ignore directories that have the 
> > ".git" directory (so long as it's not the top of the repo, that is), but 
> > I haven't had the energy to fix that when there's already a solution 
> > that's simple enough and quite adequate.
> 
> BTW, will something like "*/.git/*" in info/exclude work? IOW, does *
> match a "/"?

Nope, but try just '.git' - in case it is not a pathname but just a
filename (or dirname, for that matter), it will recursively apply to all
the subtrees.

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