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From: Robert Munteanu <robert.munteanu@gmail.com>
Subject: Maintaining a repository with symlinks
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 14:00:00 +0300
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Hi,

I'm trying to build a repository of the system configuration files in
/etc. Named is installed in a chroot jail in
/var/named/chroot/var/named/data . I'm interested in getting both the
regular etc files and the named ones in the same repository since I
use branches to stage changes and it makes life easier when adding an
apache virtual host and a name server entry at the same time.

I've tried unifying the directory structure by symlinking them, but
git refuses to add that path:

[root@ns1 etc]# ln -s /var/named/chroot/var/named/ named-chroot
[root@ns1 etc]# git add named-chroot/*
fatal: 'named-chroot/xxx.xxx' is beyond a symbolic link

I've googled for 'git symlink' but I found no relevant information.

Is there another way of joining these directories into one repository?

Thanks,

Robert