Actually, it occurred to me after posting that the symlinking is not necessary. As long as the private directory is ignored, then it can have its own independent (and purely local) git repository. But I'll look into the multi-repo management system that Seth mentioned. Thanks! kj -- 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