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

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 12, 2010, 09:33 UTC
Message-ID: <m2p51dd1af81004120233o95640769zb14a63a4bdb29a76@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.01.1004121058390.52293@kroll.spectro.jussieu.fr>

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 09:10, Eric LEBIGOT <Eric.Lebigot@normalesup.org> wrote:

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> 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?

Sure. But it doesn't do it automatically. To do it you'd write a little script to cherry-pick any commit to the TODO across all your branches on commit.

That's now how I'd do it. I'd just add a TODO submodule or just always work on the TODO in one branch.