From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manlio Perillo Subject: [Feature request] make git buildable from a separate directory Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:52:05 +0100 Message-ID: <50E89275.6080408@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 05 21:53:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Trak5-0003Gj-He for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:53:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755864Ab3AEUxB (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2013 15:53:01 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com ([74.125.83.54]:33959 "EHLO mail-ee0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755839Ab3AEUxA (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2013 15:53:00 -0500 Received: by mail-ee0-f54.google.com with SMTP id c13so8869901eek.13 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:52:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ww612JEhvRvsPnJXFBfKyQDuBSq67Lqx8uBA4yfN5Y0=; b=M+xJTJbFS22dPpwQhwpfboO7UggsPPt90qlFl7zKbSd+t+8+t5rkR5F2qlywmKVF14 1L2ktiXR4gwhEU7LuywStcihxbdYwUc8/wU2UVfl1kJZr8uGiKkflzcygaQg8zHYD9Yd /4QNfmBnTVY7dqMT7dbsohKnqQ/bl33F8a0YaslUEosGXz1skJ9WlMle/KFFP8JfKeuw hWfTbGbNbVbXd1RX8vcW2GGRhIwKMvZLqw10s7zBXiTGIOcXjGiTlHhuu+t+IqytKBnp QzcuMIH+Pi9h+LnwrWnkEVKdUDnwHQora8EW2kF5y06C0ajOtLL9f+3Oa2xLf/FD1+E9 fxCQ== X-Received: by 10.14.223.200 with SMTP id v48mr154434837eep.24.1357419178773; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:52:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.3] ([151.70.204.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e2sm119751757eeo.8.2013.01.05.12.52.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:52:57 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20121216 Icedove/3.0.11 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi. 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. The Makefile seems quite complex to me, so I'm not sure to be able to change it to do what I want, without breaking it. Thanks Manlio -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDoknUACgkQscQJ24LbaUTw/QCdHbphkU3Mepo98D07yLaj3YyF 5I4Anii94QDHsC1zm2Jp1hy2X/JFa/NE =vV1z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----