From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Avery Pennarun" Subject: Re: Windows symlinks Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:04:37 -0400 Message-ID: <32541b130806241704y3befda90j78329af2f30d95d2@mail.gmail.com> References: <911589C97062424796D53B625CEC0025E46193@USCOBRMFA-SE-70.northamerica.cexp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jnareb@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 25 02:05:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KBIWE-0002qL-5J for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:05:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753238AbYFYAEm (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:04:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753223AbYFYAEm (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:04:42 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.187]:33681 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752704AbYFYAEl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:04:41 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so2993748fkq.5 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:04:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=xAFJRZk4Y1zTZqoGj07tTLYUMaInRl4UU5qk94+AjRw=; b=hyUJTKobUMJUeqK3Slp75QZ2jXZX72A27t2/b1VZ7j8bATHYYWISPNF1/JRCqRcexZ 28DtlWTusCb0Pe2VwfIr5CkPbklz+HG0Iqh8bonJDVYg3N8dV6Jmx01WiEbEKIl6+ZaC 7GkrOuq/IAA/LVYMstaSNAVXf91tMpjm88KDk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=l/rhzyoRUuK5Waf9zsTqTz64oX6ATykz4FshKeWyqfYsMKEGw8QCrLeX3dPa4gVv28 +44sEnHm+snnWXkSmPs/Hba+YLKRhUguop+rV+3ccQv/L88EIG+w+2U25ZambWcQmKSY aioGQK15NG2onAqwKNisxHY+LxlMH1vYtyvq4= Received: by 10.82.187.2 with SMTP id k2mr608138buf.55.1214352278000; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.100.5 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:04:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <911589C97062424796D53B625CEC0025E46193@USCOBRMFA-SE-70.northamerica.cexp.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 6/24/08, 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