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Deon George <deon.george <at> gmail.com> writes:

> > Third, if the above isn't what you want, then you can manually
> > intermingle working directories of different git repositories
> > (probably requiring decouplig of bare git repository (git-dir)
> > from working area (work-tree)).
> 
> Ahh, now this sounds like it might be what I want to do - I think I'll
> explore this. I can see that it would provide file level autonomy
> only, but as a starting point I think it will help heaps...

Proof of concept:

export GIT_WORK_TREE=.

git --git-dir=.git1 init
git --git-dir=.git1 add view1-file
git --git-dir=.git1 commit -m"view1 initial"

git --git-dir=.git2 init
git --git-dir=.git2 add view1-file
git --git-dir=.git2 commit -m"view2 initial"

git --git-dir=.git1 log
git --git-dir=.git2 log