Hi Konstantin, I had never even heard of reparse points. Thanks, I'll try this. One other thought... will tortoisegit allow you to make a git repository out of any directory or does it also have a pre-defined folder structure for its location?
thanks, Cathy On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov < flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 02:07:31PM -0700, Cathy Shapiro wrote: > > > I'm running ColdFusion 9 Developer edition on my Windows Vista 64 PC. > > So my localhost path is C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot > > and that's where all my projects live > > I've installed msysgit and everything works fine. > > The only problem is my Git projects need to live at this path: > > C:\Users\Cathy\ > > So when I want to sync git with github I have to do my development in > > my wwwroot project folder, then copy the entire folder over to my C: > > \Users\Cathy folder and then run Git GUI from there > > It seems to be an extra step I shouldn't have to take. > > Is there a way to have git in my wwwroot? > One immediate thought: NTFS support the so-called "reparse points" [1] > which are akin to soft links for directories in Unices, so you can make > C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot > a reparse point pointing to > C:\Users\Cathy\projects\yourproject > (or a subdirectory of it or whatever). Then you'd have to make sure > the ".git" subdirectory is made inaccessible for the web clients using > whatever stands for .htaccess in your web server. > > AFAIK, creation of reparse points is provided by the mklink command-line > tool since Vista. Alternatives also exists--I prefer doing this using > the FAR archive manager [2]. > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link > 2. http://farmanager.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en. > > -- Flash Pro Design 4646 Poplar, Suite 517 Memphis, TN 38117 Phone: (901) 767-8767 Fax: (901) 685-9054 http://www.flashprodesign.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
