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From: Konstantin Khomoutov <flatworm@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Referring to other repositories
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:58:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101214055825.GJ3264@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101214T011043-268@post.gmane.org>

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 01:03:20AM +0000, Maaartin wrote:

> I'm using multiple repositories corresponding to different projects. Currently, 
> all the projects reside in different subdirectories of the same directory, like
> work/A
> work/B
> work/C
> There are some dependencies like B and C depending on A.
[...]
> I know about git submodule, however IIUIC it needs the other project to become 
> a subdirectory of the master, but I can hardly make A to subdirectory of both B 
> and C (I'm a poor Windows user, so no symlinks).
[...]
> So it looks like using submodules is no option, but I hope you tell me that I'm 
> wrong.
Windows supports directory-only symlinks on NTFS >= 3.0 (starting with
Windows 2000, that is), see [1], and it seems that since Vista there are
true symlinks (did not have a chance to use them yet).
I'm not sure if msysgit will play nicely with them, but at least you
could try.

[...]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point

      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-14  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-14  1:03 Referring to other repositories Maaartin
2010-12-14  5:58 ` Konstantin Khomoutov [this message]

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