Re: Referring to other repositories

From: Konstantin Khomoutov <flatworm@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Dec 14, 2010, 05:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20101214055825.GJ3264@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101214T011043-268@post.gmane.org>

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 01:03:20AM +0000, Maaartin wrote:

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> I'm using multiple repositories corresponding to different projects. Currently, 
> all the projects reside in different subdirectories of the same directory, like
> work/A
> work/B
> work/C
> There are some dependencies like B and C depending on A.

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> I know about git submodule, however IIUIC it needs the other project to become 
> a subdirectory of the master, but I can hardly make A to subdirectory of both B 
> and C (I'm a poor Windows user, so no symlinks).

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> So it looks like using submodules is no option, but I hope you tell me that I'm 
> wrong.

Windows supports directory-only symlinks on NTFS >= 3.0 (starting with Windows 2000, that is), see [1], and it seems that since Vista there are true symlinks (did not have a chance to use them yet). I'm not sure if msysgit will play nicely with them, but at least you could try.

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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point