[Feature request] make git buildable from a separate directory

2013-01-05 Thread Manlio Perillo
-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

Re: [Feature request] make git buildable from a separate directory

2013-01-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
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.