From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:56:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Having Git follow symlinks
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1401311052370.3993@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <vpqa9ed1w8y.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy:

> One option is to have the symlink in the other direction: make 
> /etc/foo a symlink to $GIT_WORKTREE/foo and version the later.

I do that for the software that supports it, but ssh, for instance, is 
very picky that ~/.ssh is a directory and such. And at least one of 
the other files I version-control will be unlinked and overwritten in 
such a way that that does not work.

I could split the repo up (that seems to be what "vcsh" is doing) and 
check the parts out in the corresponding directories, but I do like 
the idea of having one single repo.


Oh, well, if I have the time, maybe I can come up with a patch. There 
is already some hacks in the "core.symlinks" setting, so I guess it 
should be possible.

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\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/