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Re: .git inside a .git: is it safe?

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Mar 12, 2007, 22:15 UTC
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<20070312221540.GA16545@spearce.org>
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Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefille@gmail.com> wrote:
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> But, I recently discover that everything seems fine if I include the
> Git repo of mainproject inside the Git repo of my project. The layout
> lloks like this:
> myproject
> |- .git
> |- sub
>  |- tree
>    |- mainproject
>      |- .git
> 
> 
> It seems to work. But do you think such layout is "safe" ?

Yes, that's fine. You just probably want an entry in the top level project (myproject) that says ignore the stuff under mainproject. That way "git add ." in myproject doesn't include files in mainproject by accident.

-- 
Shawn.
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  1. Guilhem BonnefilleMar 12, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceMar 12, 2007
  3. Guilhem BonnefilleMar 14, 2007
  4. Jakub NarebskiMar 12, 2007

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