From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:25:28 GMT
Subject: Re: tool and worktree
Message-ID: <20090208192528.GC30557@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090208034406.GB7230@b2j>

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote:
> I track /etc using a config
> 
> [core]
> 	repositoryformatversion = 0
> 	filemode = true
> 	bare = false
> 	worktree = /etc
> 	logAllRefUpdates = true
> 	excludesfile =
> 
> But that can not be handled by tools,
> 
> git gui : cannot use funny .git directory .

If someone sends patches for git-gui, maybe.  This use case of
different repository and worktree isn't very common for git-gui
so it doesn't support it.

On Windows with some versions of Tcl/Tk I've had trouble in the
past with Git finding the repository when forked out of the wish
process.  To work around it I just required that the repository
be in ".git".

Have you tried making /etc/.git a symlink to the real repository?

BTW, tracking /etc/ in git won't track permissions and ownership
so restoring /etc from git isn't enough on its own.  Usually I
use some sort of shell script to copy /etc to another location
and check it into git, and a different script to go the other way,
with that script handling mode and ownership as it goes.

-- 
Shawn.