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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: wiekaltheut@gmx.de
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Treat submodules as normal directories/files?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:48:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100713064859.GA2918@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100713061451.308580@gmx.net>

Hi,

wiekaltheut@gmx.de wrote:

> Is it possible to treat submodules as normal 
> directories/files?
> 
> I'm using Git not just for source code, but also for 
> documents and my "projects" directory (mainly an
> Eclipse Workspace) in my home directory. Though Git
> may not be designed for this, it is an easy way do
> create a backup and sync my home directory between
> my machines :-).

See [1] for a similar question.  Though the answer in your
case is likely to be completely different; I suspect you
might find bup[2] interesting.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144847
[2] http://github.com/apenwarr/bup#readme

      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-13  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-13  6:14 Treat submodules as normal directories/files? wiekaltheut
2010-07-13  6:48 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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