From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Feature request] make git buildable from a separate directory
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 16:49:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130106004917.GA6063@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50E89275.6080408@gmail.com>
Hi Manlio,
Manlio Perillo wrote:
> Many C projects I have seen (based on autoconf, but not always - like
> Nginx) allow the project to be build in a separate directory, in order
> to avoid to pollute the working directory with compiled files.
>
> Unfortunately this seems to not be possible with Git.
I believe the Cygwin build[1] does this, so that could be a starting
point if you want to work on it.
They use the VPATH variable[2].
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00391.html
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/General-Search.html#General-Search
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2013-01-05 20:52 [Feature request] make git buildable from a separate directory Manlio Perillo
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