Solved GitLab Symlink folder to another project?

[Obsolesce]

I have a project in GitLab, let's call it /project1.git.
I have another project in GitLab, let's call that one /project2.git.

In /project2.git, is it possible to symlink a folder project2/folder to /project1?

[Obsolesce]

@stacksofplates said in GitLab Symlink folder to another project?:

Use submodules for this.

git submodule add https://gitlab.com/<user>/repo repo

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Looked up submodules, and found two good references, posting them here for future reference.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/git_submodules.html

[scottalanmiller]

That feels like a really bad idea.

[Obsolesce]

What I want to avoid doing is copying and pasting code from project1 into a folder in project2 every time it changes.

[black3dynamite]

Take a look this.
https://gist.github.com/whistler/de34b77aba2221ed8b2e

[stacksofplates]

Use submodules for this.

git submodule add https://gitlab.com/<user>/repo repo

[matteo nunziati]

@stacksofplates said in GitLab Symlink folder to another project?:

Use submodules for this.

git submodule add https://gitlab.com/<user>/repo repo

Yes submodule is the right way. Isolate common code into a library. Make a git for the lib. Submodule it in both of your projects.

[matteo nunziati]

@Tim_G now that you have submoduled a folder guess: how to remove that folder from project1. Or better how to move the entire history of 'folder' into a new git?! Welcome to hell buahahah... (Done this one time. Still recovering from it :p)

[Obsolesce]

@stacksofplates said in GitLab Symlink folder to another project?:

Use submodules for this.

git submodule add https://gitlab.com/<user>/repo repo

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Looked up submodules, and found two good references, posting them here for future reference.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/git_submodules.html