bill lam <cbill.lam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I track /etc using a config > > [core] > repositoryformatversion = 0 > filemode = true > bare = false > worktree = /etc > logAllRefUpdates = true > excludesfile = > > But that can not be handled by tools, > > git gui : cannot use funny .git directory . If someone sends patches for git-gui, maybe. This use case of different repository and worktree isn't very common for git-gui so it doesn't support it. On Windows with some versions of Tcl/Tk I've had trouble in the past with Git finding the repository when forked out of the wish process. To work around it I just required that the repository be in ".git". Have you tried making /etc/.git a symlink to the real repository? BTW, tracking /etc/ in git won't track permissions and ownership so restoring /etc from git isn't enough on its own. Usually I use some sort of shell script to copy /etc to another location and check it into git, and a different script to go the other way, with that script handling mode and ownership as it goes. -- Shawn. -- 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
