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

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Apr 12, 2010, 15:06 UTC
Message-ID: <FEC79299-7309-4665-8CD0-10CD0E7EC033@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.01.1004121639230.60420@kroll.spectro.jussieu.fr>

El 12/04/2010, a las 16:46, Eric LEBIGOT escribió:

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> Thank you!  I can see what is done in the git.git repository, thanks to your pointer, and it looks like I'm trying to get from git.  But how do you create and manage such an independent 'todo' branch?  This branch appears on the same level as master, in the pages you gave, but you also mention a "non versioned Meta/ directory".  Does this mean that the file structure is like the following?
> 
> ./.git
> Meta/.git
> Meta/<todo files>
> 
> If yes, how do all branches appear at the same level in http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=summary ?  If no, how was the 'todo' branch created?  (I would love to have the todo file in the same directory as the rest.)

You can create a parentless branch as explained here:

  http://madduck.net/blog/2007.07.11:creating-a-git-branch-without-ancestry/

Cheers, Wincent