Re: how to git a read only directory

From: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2009, 15:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20090121155256.GB6966@b2j>
In-Reply-To: <4977164B.4020706@panasas.com>

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote:

> I created a master project folder under ~home, init a new git repo,
> then symlink /etc/ onto an etc/ in the project dir, added all etc/
> files. I like the extra a/etc/fstab in the patch files better then
> a/fstab.

I create a symlink in ~/gitrepo/etc to /etc and git init an empty repo there. However it failed in symlink when I tried to add files. Could you give more detail how to do it? Meanwhile I use worktree method as suggested by Michael.

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