Question

i started to learn git, created a git repo in a svn way (many projects per repo) and started do develop the project

x/
+--.git/
      +--y/
         |--pom.xml
         +--rest of java files and folders

so actually root of my java project is y but root of git repo is x. eclipse handles it really nicely allowing you to specify ‘working directory’/’path’ inside the repo that becomes root of your project

but when i tried to integrate it with jenkins i realised that git way is ‘one repo per project’ and i can’t provide such ‘working directory’ in jenkins.

my question is: what for eclipse introduced the concept of ‘working directory’/’path’ if it’s incompatible with rest of the world? when should i use it?
i’m sure i’m missing something, but don’t know what

Answer 1

“many projects per repo” is called submodules in git world.
Limiting each repo to one project is better (and more compatible with other frameworks expectations, like Jenkins), but a git repo can reference many other repos through submodules.

The working directory is by default x, but could be any other path if you want to separate the actualt repo x/.git from the working directory (you could want to be elsewhere)