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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Feature request] make git buildable from a separate directory
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 16:49:17 -0800
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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