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Re: tracking a file from another project in my own project

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Ppicca <picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr>
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Jan 22, 2008, 13:56 UTC
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:20:41 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> If I were you I'd probably just keep git.git as a submodule in
> your project and have two symlinks from your toplevel pointing
> at git.git/strbuf.[ch] (or from src/ to ../git.git/strbuf.[ch]).
So submodule is a requirement to achieved this comportment ?

If someone want to clone my project.git, must he also clone the git.git project or he loose the ability to follow by it's own the strbuf.[ch] file ?

> Or "merge -s subtree".

I red the git help merge -s explanation but I do not understand how it can help in my case.

Thanks
Frederic
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