bill lam wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> I created a master project folder under ~home, init a new git repo, >> then symlink /etc/ onto an etc/ in the project dir, added all etc/ >> files. I like the extra a/etc/fstab in the patch files better then >> a/fstab. > > I create a symlink in ~/gitrepo/etc to /etc and git init an empty repo > there. However it failed in symlink when I tried to add files. Could > you give more detail how to do it? Meanwhile I use worktree method as > suggested by Michael. > What? I don't know this is what I did: [~] $ mkdir gitrepo; cd gitrepo [gitrepo] $ git-init [gitrepo] $ ln -s /etc [gitrepo] $ git-add /etc/fstab [gitrepo] $ git-commit -s Edit commit message in editor [gitrepo] $ git-show commit fd6a4a72bf91526b56528f4036c525f6d6fd3dc0 Author: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 21 18:36:58 2009 +0200 {REMOVEME} etc/fstab test Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/etc/fstab b/etc/fstab new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e3f8d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/etc/fstab @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +LABEL=/fc7 / ext3 noatime 1 1 +LABEL=/usr0 /usr0 ext3 noatime 1 2 +LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 +LABEL=/fc10 /alt ext3 defaults 1 2 +tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 +devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 +sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 +proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 +LABEL=SWAP-sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 +panstor:/main /mnt/panstor nfs soft,intr,rsize=65536,wsize=65536 0 0 <... snip ...> So in short I did nothing. I have git 1.6.0.1 Boaz -- 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