[GTALUG] Git question

[David Thornton]

Why didn't i see the original post? Was it sent to GTALUG?

The way I would do what you want to do is, that I would copy the current
/etc/ansible to the repo's root and then symlink back.

Alternatively I would make a new repo in /etc/ansible.

Finally, the most hacky way (read: prone to unexpected consequences ): do a
commit hook that copies / merges the /etc/ansible to <reporoot>/etc/ansible/

David



On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Myles Braithwaite <me at mylesbraithwaite.com>
wrote:

> William Muriithi wrote:
> > Afternoon
> >
> > I have a git repo called configurations. I want to add the directory
> /etc/ansible to the repo.
> >
> > Problem is when I clone the repo, I am not able to commit the ansible
> directory as the ansible root directory is outside the repo?
> >
> > Is there a way of getting the ansible directory into git without using a
> symlink?
>
> No. The work tree has to existing in the same root directory and cannot
> be outside the repository.
>
> The only two way you could do it is with a symlink or making
> /etc/ansible a git repo. etckeeper[1] might be checking out as while.
>
> [1]: <https://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/>
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