Using git to manage "external items" in xojo projects

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every time I see a post like

it makes me think really that people need to learn how to use git to achieve that (Subversion also supports such a notion as externals)

SUBPROJECTs are what you want

a GIT subproject can be an entire folder full of whatever you want (something xojo WONT accommodate since modules with subitems cant be external)

Because this subproject is NOT “external” as far as xojo knows it happily brings in everything when you drag it into a project
The only trick is that you want to keep them in their own separate folder hierarchy so you can remove & read the entire folder

It works just dandy

but since I cant post this on TOF folks will remain blissfully unaware

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I’ve gotta tell them :rofl:

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Cynic :slight_smile:

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i DOUBT THEY REALLY WANT TO READ IT :slight_smile:

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Guess I’ll wait until their ears or their fingers hurt so much from being jammed into them and yelling LA LA LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU all the time :stuck_out_tongue:

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possibly. But there is a kind of ignorance and missing knowledge. Wow.

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read the posts people get as replies sometimes

a lot of knowledge has been lost over the last several years

and it shows

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What can you expect? People reading only the official Xojo meaning. And the official Xojo informations. That leads to: no knowledge about the real world anymore. Sad but true.

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omg, done that 14 years ago…

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Other IDEs have full GIT integration. :smirk:

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Yes, vscode, visualstudio, intellij, NETBEANS and many more

But they have not only git integration but also language Support und cl compilers and so much more. he entire problem of XJ is exactly this strukcture. No command line compiler, no git intergratioon, no nothing. And on top an IDE which is really slow. Nice? No. Not at all. all time I am using Netbeans with it’s UI Designer ? feel disrupted by Xojo. They have no real sense for technology and no Ideas about the needs of programmers.

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