Re: Question about handling of heterogeneous repositories

Petr Baudis, Sun, Nov 27, 2005 14:11:47 +0100:

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For everyone who have an experience with ClearCase or Perforce (I'm
sorry for mentioning it) it is what the "mappings" are often used for:
a project is build together from different parts, which can be worked
on separately.

I'm trying to introduce git at work, but have to prepare myself for
possible questions first, and this is one of them :)

This is something e.g. Cogito wants to support, but does not yet.
Patches welcome.

I wouldn't know what to patch, having no clear picture of the approach
myself, and especially when I don't feel safe using the solution. For
example, how do you go about moving/renaming files between subrepos?
Rename detection will not work, which will be unexpected...

BTW, how does git-mv behave for out-of-tree renaming? How about
inter-repo renaming (remove+add)?

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It would certainly be nicer to have git ignore directories that have the 
".git" directory (so long as it's not the top of the repo, that is), but 
I haven't had the energy to fix that when there's already a solution 
that's simple enough and quite adequate.

BTW, will something like "*/.git/*" in info/exclude work? IOW, does *
match a "/"?

Nope, but try just '.git' - in case it is not a pathname but just a
filename (or dirname, for that matter), it will recursively apply to all
the subtrees.

well, it ignored the ".git"s in the subdirs, not _the_ subdirectories.
I think that can be helped by putting the directories themselves into
.gitignore lists.