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Re: Treat submodules as normal directories/files?

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 13, 2010, 06:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20100713064859.GA2918@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20100713061451.308580@gmx.net>
Hi,
wiekaltheut@gmx.de wrote:
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> Is it possible to treat submodules as normal 
> directories/files?
> 
> I'm using Git not just for source code, but also for 
> documents and my "projects" directory (mainly an
> Eclipse Workspace) in my home directory. Though Git
> may not be designed for this, it is an easy way do
> create a backup and sync my home directory between
> my machines :-).

See [1] for a similar question. Though the answer in your case is likely to be completely different; I suspect you might find bup[2] interesting.

Hope that helps, Jonathan

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144847 [2] http://github.com/apenwarr/bup#readme

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  1. wiekaltheut@gmx.deJul 13, 2010
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