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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: how to git a read only directory
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:19:41 +0200
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bill lam wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> [~] $ mkdir gitrepo; cd gitrepo
>> [gitrepo] $ git-init
>> [gitrepo] $ ln -s /etc
>> [gitrepo] $ git-add /etc/fstab
> 

Sorry My mistake, it should be:
[gitrepo] $ git-add etc/fstab

> (I use git ver. 1.6.1, git-xxx is already deprecated)
> I followed your example, and failed in the git add,
> 
> gitrepo$  git add /etc/fstab
> fatal: '/etc/fstab' is outside repository
> 

Sorry it's a typo, sure you must add files relative to
the base directory (one containing the .git/ dir)

Cheers
Boaz