From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Feature Enhancement Idea.
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:26:49 +0200
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Hi,

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Deon George <deon.george@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right place, but I thought I'd post my
> idea and maybe somebody will either redirect me to the right place, or
> give me that "that wont happen".
>
> Im fairly new to GIT (wish I had discovered it long ago), and I really
> like using it - great work guys/garls :)
>
> My idea is to enhance GIT to support (I'll call it) development
> "layers". The current design of GIT is that the working repository and
> working directory assume that all files belong together in the same
> project. I would like to see GIT go 3D and support layers, so that
> files (and/or file content) can belong to multiple repositories (or
> considered unique projects), even though the working tree presents all
> files as if they were one.

Perhaps you could have a look at "git replace" that is now in the master branch.
It could be improved to provide different "views" of a single repository.
I don't think that alone it would provide everything you want though.

Best regards,
Christian.