From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:15:40 GMT
Subject: Re: .git inside a .git: is it safe?
Message-ID: <20070312221540.GA16545@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <8b65902a0703121456s56008088ra14452ef7f325cf3@mail.gmail.com>

Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefille@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.