From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Having Git follow symlinks
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:37:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqa9ed1w8y.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1401300958320.30100@ds9.cixit.se> (Peter Krefting's message of "Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:01:20 +0100 (CET)")
Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes:
> Yeah, but then I have copies of the files, instead of having the files
> themselves under version control, meaning I need to copy them back to
> push changes back, or to merge them. That is undesirable :-/
One option is to have the symlink in the other direction: make /etc/foo
a symlink to $GIT_WORKTREE/foo and version the later.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-30 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-28 13:49 Having Git follow symlinks Peter Krefting
2014-01-28 14:47 ` Johan Herland
2014-01-30 9:01 ` Peter Krefting
2014-01-30 10:09 ` Christian Couder
2014-01-30 12:37 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2014-01-31 9:56 ` Peter Krefting
2014-01-31 13:20 ` Matthew Ruffalo
2014-01-31 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-31 17:56 ` Matthieu Moy
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