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Re: Put part of working tree on another file-system.

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RDRogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Date
Dec 5, 2007, 15:34 UTC
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Sergei Organov wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> I've a desire to put a sub-tree of my working tree into another
> file-system. With CVS I've used symlink to achieve this. It works fine
> with CVS as it doesn't care about directories and symlinks at all. I had
> little hope it will work with GIT, but I've performed a test anyway. To
> my surprise it almost worked, so I have a hope that maybe it's not that
> difficult to support this. What do you think? Or maybe there is a
> different way to achieve the goal with GIT?
>

I needed to do this in Cygwin, and saw the same behaviour. I worked around it by using cygwin's "mount" command to "mount" the other directory in Cygwin's namespace. With this done, cygwin does not detect a symlink (since there is none), and works as expected.

With sufficient permissions, you can probably achieve the same effect with bind mounts perhaps (assuming Linux, of course).

Rogan
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