Bndtools - workflow question: How to setup workspace and 3rd party bundle from different git repo

I would not copy the files into your workspace.

What you can do is use the -buildrepo instruction. If you set this to a local maven repo, it will push your artifacts to the local maven repo in ~/.m2/repository. You can consume it from there.

So if your project is in another workspace, you just open two Eclipses on each. If the other project is maven or Gradle, you just install the artifacts.