Re: Is it possible to have a file shared between branches?

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Apr 12, 2010, 09:36 UTC
Message-ID: <95BBC559-1EDC-4BF8-98A2-05729BFCCA1D@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.01.1004121058390.52293@kroll.spectro.jussieu.fr>

El 12/04/2010, a las 11:10, Eric LEBIGOT escribió:

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> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible for git to track a single file that would be shared accross branches?  Case in point: a to-do list file that describes what has to be done in all the branches; it can be convenient to put all the things that have to be done in a single, shared file, while keeping this to-do list in sync with the code (so that it lists what has been done, and what remains to be done).  Committing in a branch would in effect also commit the shared file in the other branches (another possibility may be to have in effect many "trees" in a single git directory, with a specific tree for the to-do list).
> 
> Is this something git can do?

Not exactly.

The way I'd do this is to put that kind of "meta" file in a branch of its own.

Look at the git.git repo itself for an example of a repo with a few branches (todo, html, and man) that are independent of the actual development branches (master, maint, next, pu).

Cheers, Wincent