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

> 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).