Can I have multiple Git repos from a single project folder?
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if you want the files interleaved in the same folder hierarchy (ie. not separated into engine and web-files as @shorbaji suggests) to my knowledge there is no way to do this. I doubt any folder based version control system will allow you to do that. You would have to use something like RCS :shudder:
If you are considering such a structure, ask your self: why? This is not a common structure (thus the lack of tool support), but your problem is common.
If you want to separate your files into two subdirectories as suggested, I recommend using a top level git repo to track all of it, and using git submodule for your engine:
If you are considering such a structure, ask your self: why? This is not a common structure (thus the lack of tool support), but your problem is common.
If you want to separate your files into two subdirectories as suggested, I recommend using a top level git repo to track all of it, and using git submodule for your engine:
projects
| engine # directory containing you engine code
| .git
| files...
| MyProject
| .git
| .gitmodules
| engine # a clone of your engine repository above
| ...
| the rest of your files ...
Ya, I was thinking about doing exactly that. I figured that might be the best option, but thought I'd ask in case there was some Git feature that I just didn't know about. I'll probably go this way. Thanks!
If you have these components in separate folders within the main project folder simple create a git repo within each folder.
$cd engine
$git init .
$cd ../web-files
$git init .
I'd like to maintain this all with Git but I'd like to have distinct repos for each component of the site. So, is there a way to have multiple repos from this single project folder? More specifically, is it possible to have multiple files from a single folder belong to different repos?