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From: picca <picca@synchrotron-soleil.Fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tracking a file from another project in my own project
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:56:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080122145658.18b6ef89@synchrotron-soleil.Fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7ii2rzbq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:20:41 -0800
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> If I were you I'd probably just keep git.git as a submodule in
> your project and have two symlinks from your toplevel pointing
> at git.git/strbuf.[ch] (or from src/ to ../git.git/strbuf.[ch]).

So submodule is a requirement to achieved this comportment ?

If someone want to clone my project.git, must he also clone the
git.git project or he loose the ability to follow by it's own the
strbuf.[ch] file ?

> Or "merge -s subtree".

I red the git help merge -s explanation but I do not understand how
it can help in my case.

Thanks

Frederic

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-22 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-22  8:35 tracking a file from another project in my own project picca
2008-01-22  9:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-22 13:56   ` picca [this message]
2008-01-22 15:23     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-22 17:30       ` Sergei Organov
2008-01-22 18:34         ` Jakub Narebski

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