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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Treat submodules as normal directories/files?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:48:59 -0500
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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