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Re: how to git a read only directory

From
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Date
Jan 22, 2009, 10:19 UTC
Message-ID
<4978483D.6040105@panasas.com>
In-Reply-To
<20090122100008.GC6936@b2j>
bill lam wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> [~] $ mkdir gitrepo; cd gitrepo
>> [gitrepo] $ git-init
>> [gitrepo] $ ln -s /etc
>> [gitrepo] $ git-add /etc/fstab
>

Sorry My mistake, it should be: [gitrepo] $ git-add etc/fstab

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> (I use git ver. 1.6.1, git-xxx is already deprecated)
> I followed your example, and failed in the git add,
> 
> gitrepo$  git add /etc/fstab
> fatal: '/etc/fstab' is outside repository
>

Sorry it's a typo, sure you must add files relative to the base directory (one containing the .git/ dir)

Cheers Boaz

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