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Re: Push from specific directory.

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 22, 2012, 23:27 UTC
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<20120322232723.GA15676@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 06:22:13PM -0500, Neal Kreitzinger wrote:
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> >You have a repository inside a repository. So when you are in (c),
> >you will be pushing the commits from (c), not from (a). I'm not
> >really sure what you are trying to accomplish with that.
> >
> See this thread for the "cons" of nested git repos: (I don't think
> there are any "pros".)
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/190372

Nested git repos are OK. I use one inside my git.git checkout to hold meta-information and scripts (and I know Junio does the same thing). But I mark the sub-repository as ignored in the parent repository. What's insane is trying to track the same set of files from two different repositories. And I think that is the confusing case in the thread you mentioned.

-Peff
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  1. Anjib MulepatiMar 22, 2012
  2. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
  3. Neal KreitzingerMar 22, 2012
  4. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
  5. Neal KreitzingerMar 22, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  7. Neal KreitzingerMar 23, 2012
  8. Neal KreitzingerMar 23, 2012
  9. Neal KreitzingerMar 23, 2012
  10. Holger HellmuthMar 26, 2012
  11. Neal KreitzingerMar 26, 2012

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