Partial tree export and merging

[Heiko Voigt <heiko.voigt@mahr.de>]

Hallo,

I am currently facing a challenge for adding limited access to a git 
repository for the i18n and documentation (language) team. Our 
repository contains *.html and *.loc files which are located along with 
the code. The language team should not see the code. At the same time a 
developer using the full tree needs to be able to contribute to the i8n 
files.

To archieve this I would like to extract a repository that only contains 
the documentation and localization files which can be used by the i8n 
and doc team. This should be regularly merged into the development (with 
code) repository.

My idea of a solution would be to export patches only for the specific 
files and import them into a seperate empty repository/branch using 
git-format-patch and git-am. This seperate repository then itself then
could be imported again with a normal merge operation. Has a anyone 
already solved such a problem or other ideas how to solve this ?

cheers Heiko