From: picca <picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:56:58 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking a file from another project in my own project
Message-ID: <20080122145658.18b6ef89@synchrotron-soleil.Fr>
In-Reply-To: <7v7ii2rzbq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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