From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:50:49 GMT
Subject: Re: sub-directory repo technique
Message-ID: <32541b130906160950s75f4aa11h59ad2de7d2bcd40c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9586f3420906120507o194fc459l5fbdcd14a7095ae8@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Allan Kelly<allankelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> (I need the top-level .gitignore to contain a line '.gitignore' to
> avoid reporting the "sub-repo" .gitignore as untracked - which is
> correct but not of interest. It appears that git automatically ignores
> the .git dir for the westbarnsgala.info repo created below)

It's not really "ignoring" the .git dir.  It's treating the entire
subtree that contains the .git dir as a submodule.  See 'man
git-submodule'.  Git submodules may actually resolve your problem in a
more straightforward way than what you're doing.

You might also be interested in my git-subtree tool:
http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree

Have fun,

Avery