From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:04:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Windows symlinks
Message-ID: <32541b130806241704y3befda90j78329af2f30d95d2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <911589C97062424796D53B625CEC0025E46193@USCOBRMFA-SE-70.northamerica.cexp.com>

On 6/24/08, Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com <Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com> wrote:
> 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