From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: Re: how to git a read only directory Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:46:19 +0200 Message-ID: <4977515B.9030807@panasas.com> References: <20090121083354.GG6970@b2j> <4977164B.4020706@panasas.com> <20090121155256.GB6966@b2j> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Boaz Harrosh , git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 21 17:47:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LPgF7-0003vU-7u for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:47:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752056AbZAUQq2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:46:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751926AbZAUQq1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:46:27 -0500 Received: from gw-ca.panasas.com ([66.104.249.162]:3235 "EHLO laguna.int.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751544AbZAUQq1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:46:27 -0500 Received: from daytona.int.panasas.com ([172.17.28.41]) by laguna.int.panasas.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:46:22 -0800 Received: from bh-buildlin2.bhalevy.com ([172.17.28.136]) by daytona.int.panasas.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:46:20 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2 (X11; 2008072418) In-Reply-To: <20090121155256.GB6966@b2j> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jan 2009 16:46:21.0352 (UTC) FILETIME=[CA016280:01C97BE7] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 Date: Wed Jan 21 18:36:58 2009 +0200 {REMOVEME} etc/fstab test Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh 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