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diff --git a/doc/forum/Multiple_repos_on_same_path/comment_1_67ed823c4c40f5acf12b48eb75d7afa8._comment b/doc/forum/Multiple_repos_on_same_path/comment_1_67ed823c4c40f5acf12b48eb75d7afa8._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5ab93d9ed --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Multiple_repos_on_same_path/comment_1_67ed823c4c40f5acf12b48eb75d7afa8._comment @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://sunny256.wordpress.com/" + nickname="sunny256" + subject="Create symlink in the root directory" + date="2015-05-12T13:04:18Z" + content=""" +My way of dealing with this is to create a symlink in the root directory that point to the root directory, like + +[[!format sh \"\"\" +$ cd / +$ sudo ln -sv . compname +[sudo] password for sunny: hunter2 +'compname' -> '.' +$ ls -l compname +lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 May 12 14:52 compname -> . +$ +\"\"\"]] + +where `compname` is the hostname for the computer. Now you can create paths like + +[[!format sh \"\"\" +git remote add comp-a /comp-a/home/my_user/data/repo +git remote add comp-b /comp-b/home/my_user/data/repo +\"\"\"]] + +This is also useful in other scripts where fetching data from the right directory on the wrong computer is bad. Also, this is a cheap way for a script to determine which computer it's running on: + +[[!format sh \"\"\" +test -L \"/comp-a\" && echo Running on computer comp-a +\"\"\"]] + +"""]] |