Re: Question about handling of heterogeneous repositories

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Petr Baudis, Sun, Nov 27, 2005 14:11:47 +0100:
> > > >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.

I wouldn't know what to patch, having no clear picture of the approach
myself, and especially when I don't feel safe using the solution. For
example, how do you go about moving/renaming files between subrepos?
Rename detection will not work, which will be unexpected...

BTW, how does git-mv behave for out-of-tree renaming? How about
inter-repo renaming (remove+add)?

> > > 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.

well, it ignored the ".git"s in the subdirs, not _the_ subdirectories.
I think that can be helped by putting the directories themselves into
.gitignore lists.