onsdag 29 april 2009 00:54:54 skrev Andrew Bush: > Hi all, > > I have a desire to have a single git repository that tracks the > content of an array of folders located in various places across my > file system. > > this doesn't *appear* to be supported in any way, I found some stuff > about using shortcuts but that was apparently removed in version 1.6 > because of the problem of deciding when to follow them and when to > index them. > > > Ideally what I would like is a way to specify in the git config file > for a repository an arbitary list of folders that it should index, > instead of only having the choice of indexing the folder the > repository is stored in. What I do sometimes is set GIT_DIR and then add paths relative to / and adding excludes for some paths. That way I can cover /etc and selected parts of /var and other interesting areas. You cannot however have different roots for your trees, unless you make the tree using e.g symbolic links to the different directories. -- robin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html