From: Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefille@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:56:30 GMT
Subject: .git inside a .git: is it safe?
Message-ID: <8b65902a0703121456s56008088ra14452ef7f325cf3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I'm actually working on the packaging of a project. To do so, I use
two Git repositories:
- one to follow the main project
- one to manage my updates on this project.

But, the matter is I cannot merge the both root. I need to have the
main project sources in a subdirectory of my own project. My workspace
is as follow: myproject/sub/tree/mainproject

With SVN, I think such things are handled with svn:external.

Actually, with Git, I frequently copy the mainproject inside its
subtree in my workspace.


But, I recently discover that everything seems fine if I include the
Git repo of mainproject inside the Git repo of my project. The layout
lloks like this:
myproject
|- .git
|- sub
  |- tree
    |- mainproject
      |- .git


It seems to work. But do you think such layout is "safe" ?

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