Re: Sharing nested subparts of large repository?

[LordSmoke <dslice@morphometrics.org>]

Thanks for the helpful replies. It does seem that branches will do what I
want. Yesterday, I organized my files and created an (eventually)
open-source startup project (distinct from the development application
startup).

I created a branch "development" and "git rm"'d the (many) files I didn't
want to pass along to my developers. The trick here, I think, is you have to
do an initial commit before the rm's or else it will affect the master...or
something. Anyway, I had to reset and try a couple of times, but in the end
it worked. 

After checking out that branch, I created "public", initial commit, then
rm'd the development startup project and the other files I wouldn't want to
post to the world.

I also managed to push these branches to my remote repository. Add them to
my office repository as tracked branches, and test cloning, It works just as
I had envisioned - cloning the public branch produces the minimal structure.

I think I am two steps away from complete satisfaction. Not related to this,
I have some files that are reluctant to be updated, added, tracked, or
untracked, but that's a different issue. 

Now, though, I am wondering about merging the changes across branches. Say I
make changes on the development branch. If I merge that into the master,
will the reduced tracking be merged? - don't want that. If I merge the other
way - from, say, checkout public and merge in development? Will a bunch of
other stuff come over?

Anyway, that is where I am now and what I am looking into. Very happy with
progress, so far.

Oh, while I do everything from the command line, seeing it graphically with
gitx has really helped me conceptualize what is going on. All of this has
given me a much better understanding of what is going on in the little time
I have been able to spend on it. 

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