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Re: Windows symlinks

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 25, 2008, 00:04 UTC
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On 6/24/08, Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com <Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com> wrote:
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> Agreed. The first thing we started working on was getting symlinks out of our repositories.
> Unfortunately, we chose to use them because we are using broken development tools that
> don't support proper modularity. We found the best way to get the IDE's compilation to work
> was to symlink shared code into each project. It's a nasty solution, but it was the only one
> that worked. Clearcase made this solution possible. As powerful and flexible as git is, it would
> have left us out in the cold in this situation.
Perhaps git-submodule would do what you're looking for.
Avery
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  2. Avery PennarunJun 24, 2008
  3. Jay SoffianJun 26, 2008
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  5. patrick.higgins@cexp.comJun 24, 2008
  6. Avery PennarunJun 25, 2008
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  8. Andreas EricssonJun 26, 2008
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