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
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2010-07-13 6:14 Treat submodules as normal directories/files? wiekaltheut
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