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Re: [RFC/PATCH] clone: introduce clone.submoduleGitDir to relocate $GITDIR

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2013, 17:50 UTC
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Marc Branchaud wrote:
>         git add ssh://host/blammo.git

Heh. And I want git add *coffee* to make me coffee. What's your gripe with git submodule add?

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> I could have
>         ~/.git/
> to maintain revisions of various personal files, config .dotfiles, scripts in
> ~/bin/ and so on.
> [...]
> Now, are these Code/* repos inside ~/.git/'s worktree or not?
Please don't version your entire ~, effectively shooting yourself in the face?

Use a dotfiles repo and write a simple Makefile to symlink ~/.etc to ~/dotfiles/.etc. If you're looking for a good example, see https://github.com/artagnon/dotfiles.

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  13. Marc BranchaudApr 15, 2013
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  15. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 15, 2013
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  27. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 16, 2013
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  30. Jonathan NiederApr 16, 2013
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  32. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  33. Jonathan NiederApr 17, 2013
  34. Duy NguyenApr 17, 2013
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