Re: adding arbitary folders to the git index, from outside of the repository

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2009, 00:06 UTC
Message-ID: <200904290206.31153.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <8ABE87D6-F70D-4A86-8307-88B95FAF350F@patchprint.co.nz>

onsdag 29 april 2009 00:54:54 skrev Andrew Bush:

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> Hi all,
> 
> I have a desire to have a single git repository that tracks the  
> content of an array of folders located in various places across my  
> file system.
> 
> this doesn't *appear* to be supported in any way, I found some stuff  
> about using shortcuts but that was apparently removed in version 1.6  
> because of the problem of deciding when to follow them and when to  
> index them.
> 
> 
> Ideally what I would like is a way to specify in the git config file  
> for a repository an arbitary list of folders that it should index,  
> instead of only having the choice of indexing the folder the  
> repository is stored in.

What I do sometimes is set GIT_DIR and then add paths relative to / and adding excludes for some paths. That way I can cover /etc and selected parts of /var and other interesting areas. You cannot however have different roots for your trees, unless you make the tree using e.g symbolic links to the different directories.

-- robin