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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas•com>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas•com>, git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to git a read only directory
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:46:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4977515B.9030807@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090121155256.GB6966@b2j>

bill lam wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> I created a master project folder under ~home, init a new git repo,
>> then symlink /etc/ onto an etc/ in the project dir, added all etc/
>> files. I like the extra a/etc/fstab in the patch files better then
>> a/fstab.
> 
> I create a symlink in ~/gitrepo/etc to /etc and git init an empty repo
> there. However it failed in symlink when I tried to add files.  Could
> you give more detail how to do it?  Meanwhile I use worktree method as
> suggested by Michael.
> 

What? I don't know this is what I did:

[~] $ mkdir gitrepo; cd gitrepo
[gitrepo] $ git-init
[gitrepo] $ ln -s /etc
[gitrepo] $ git-add /etc/fstab
[gitrepo] $ git-commit -s
  Edit commit message in editor
[gitrepo] $ git-show
commit fd6a4a72bf91526b56528f4036c525f6d6fd3dc0
Author: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas•com>
Date:   Wed Jan 21 18:36:58 2009 +0200

    {REMOVEME} etc/fstab test

    Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas•com>

diff --git a/etc/fstab b/etc/fstab
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e3f8d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/fstab
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+LABEL=/fc7              /                       ext3    noatime         1 1
+LABEL=/usr0             /usr0                   ext3    noatime         1 2
+LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext2    noatime         1 2
+LABEL=/fc10             /alt                    ext3    defaults        1 2
+tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
+devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
+sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
+proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
+LABEL=SWAP-sda7         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
+panstor:/main          /mnt/panstor            nfs     soft,intr,rsize=65536,wsize=65536 0 0
  <... snip ...>

So in short I did nothing. I have git 1.6.0.1

Boaz

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-21 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-21  8:33 how to git a read only directory bill lam
2009-01-21  9:57 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-01-21 15:48   ` bill lam
2009-01-21 12:34 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-21 15:52   ` bill lam
2009-01-21 16:46     ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2009-01-22 10:00       ` bill lam
2009-01-22 10:19         ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-22 10:29           ` bill lam
2009-01-22 12:35             ` Boaz Harrosh

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