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Can one choose the location of the checked-out workspace copy? [message #1775974]

Wed, 08 November 2017 17:47

Michael Moser

Messages: 64
Registered: October 2012
Location: Zürich, Switzerland

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Is it possible to choose/adjust a branches checkout-location?
I would like to keep my repositories in one location and my workspace in a different one. Right now, Egit always checks out to the parent-folder of the .git folder. I would prefer to keep these directories separated, i.e.

.../some-place/foo/.git (local git repo)
.../some-other-place/workspace/* (checked out projects here)

Specifically I would like to check out projects from different repositories into the same workspace. Is that possible?

.../some-place/foo/.git (local repo1)
.../some-place/bar/.git (local repo 2)
.../some-other-place/workspace/* (projects from repo1 AND repo2 here).

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Re: Can one choose the location of the checked-out workspace copy? [message #1775991 is a reply to message #1775974]

Wed, 08 November 2017 23:17

Matthias Sohn

Messages: 1268
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You can nest working trees if their .git folders are located in the respective working tree's root folder.
And you can use submodules [1] to nest repositories.

JGit does not yet support option --separate-git-dir of the clone and init commands [2]
and it also doesn't yet support the worktree command [3].

Also native git does not support to version sibling directories/files located under the same parent
folder in different git repositories.

[1] https://rakhesh.com/coding/how-to-move-separate-the-git-folder-out-of-your-working-tree/
[2] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

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