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How do you add an external directory to repository?

Subject: How do you add an external directory to repository?

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slipstream180· Mar 7, 2010, 20:03 UTC · lore
I want to add an external directory to an existing repository.
External Dir: /home/some/directory
Working Dir: /htdocs/.git
If I attempt the following command from the /htdocs dir:
git add /home/some/directory
I get an error: fatal: '/home/some/directory' is outside repository

I understand that I can add a symbolic link to /home/some/directory, but I believe that only track the link. How do I track all files under the directory as well?

Thanks in advance!
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Fredrik Gustafsson· Mar 7, 2010, 20:23 UTC · re: slipstream180 · lore

Re: How do you add an external directory to repository?

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:03:49PM -0800, slipstream180 wrote:
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> I want to add an external directory to an existing repository.
I'm unsure if that can be done, I don't think so.

I do, however, believe that the superproject functionality can suite your needs. Then you will have two git repositories, one wich is handling the other.

It sounds really more complicated than it is.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Git/Submodules_and_Superprojects

regards iveqy

Nicolas Sebrecht· Mar 7, 2010, 21:36 UTC · re: slipstream180 · lore

Re: How do you add an external directory to repository?

The 07/03/10, slipstream180 wrote:
> I understand that I can add a symbolic link to /home/some/directory, but I
> believe that only track the link. How do I track all files under the
> directory as well?

I think you're looking for the bind option of mount. This is what I use to track all my configuration files in one "conf" repository.

Here is an extract of how my fstab looks like:
  /home/nicolas/.zsh /home/nicolas/dev/conf/zsh				auto	bind,user	0 0 
  /home/nicolas/.vim /home/nicolas/dev/conf/vim				auto	bind,user	0 0 
  /home/nicolas/.mutt /home/nicolas/dev/conf/mutt				auto	bind,user	0 0 
  /home/nicolas/.screen /home/nicolas/dev/conf/screen			auto	bind,user	0 0 
  /home/nicolas/.offlineimapconf/ /home/nicolas/dev/conf/offlineimap	auto	bind,user	0 0

I also use a symbolic link ~/.zshrc to .zsh/zshrc to track it too. This is very useful because one logical change may affect configuration files from various programs (e.g. have a new mailbox concerns mutt, offlineimap, imapfilter, and some other scripts of my own).

Also, I use this trick for web projects:
  /home/nicolas/dev/wsb /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wsb			auto	bind,user	0 0
  
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