From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com" <Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com>
Cc: jnareb@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Windows symlinks
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:04:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b130806241704y3befda90j78329af2f30d95d2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <911589C97062424796D53B625CEC0025E46193@USCOBRMFA-SE-70.northamerica.cexp.com>
On 6/24/08, Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com <Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com> wrote:
> Agreed. The first thing we started working on was getting symlinks out of our repositories.
> Unfortunately, we chose to use them because we are using broken development tools that
> don't support proper modularity. We found the best way to get the IDE's compilation to work
> was to symlink shared code into each project. It's a nasty solution, but it was the only one
> that worked. Clearcase made this solution possible. As powerful and flexible as git is, it would
> have left us out in the cold in this situation.
Perhaps git-submodule would do what you're looking for.
Avery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-25 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-24 22:42 Windows symlinks Patrick.Higgins
2008-06-24 23:18 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-26 3:50 ` Jay Soffian
2008-06-24 23:28 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 23:42 ` Patrick.Higgins
2008-06-25 0:04 ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2008-06-25 17:50 ` Patrick.Higgins
2008-06-26 6:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-06-24 23:29 ` Robin Rosenberg
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