{"thread":{"id":"43837","subject":"multiple .gitignore and friends in same workdir possible?","startedAt":"2010-04-23T12:46:40Z","lastAt":"2010-04-23T12:46:40Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Konrad Karl"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"299245","messageId":"20100423124640.GA3657localhost","threadId":"43837","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"multiple .gitignore and friends in same workdir possible?","fromName":"Konrad Karl","fromEmail":"kk_konrad@gmx.at","sentAt":"2010-04-23T12:46:40Z","receivedAt":"2010-04-23T12:46:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kk_konrad@gmx.at","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nwhile trying to move our Windows people from VSS to git i am\nfacing the following problem:\n\nI want to have two (or three) git repos wich all share the\nsame working directory (this is manageable by environment variables),\none for the real source files and the other for 3'rd party binaries \n(*.dll, *.lib + perhaps include files for those)\nand perhaps a third one for debugging symbol files (*.pdb and such)\n\nIn order to have .gitignore (and .gitattributes) files versioned\nand also distributed on git clone they need to be inside the\nwork dir. Unfortunately the sources and binaries are co-located\ninside the work dir subfolders - for historic reasons.\n\nSo i would like to have a mechanism to be able to specify different\nfilenames for .gitignore and .gitattributes  without having to\nrecompile git, perhaps by an environment variable.\n(e.g by a suffix like .gitignore.src .gitignore.bin etc)\n\nIs this currently possible or am I missing something? It would ease\nmy task a lot. \n\nGreetings,\nKonrad\n"}]}