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. I believe the Cygwin build[1] does this, so that could be a starting point if you want to work on it. They use the VPATH variable[2]. Hope that helps, Jonathan [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00391.html [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/General-Search.html#General-Search -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html