From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:34:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Put part of working tree on another file-system.
Message-ID: <4756C51C.8080608@dawes.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <87mysp8ddk.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergei Organov wrote:
> 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