[GTALUG] Git question

[Alex Beamish]

Same thing here -- I assumed it was just me. I just looked in my Spam
folder, and the last two posts that I missed were there.

Seems odd -- my filter had marked them as TLUG messages.

Alex


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:26 PM, David Thornton <northdot9 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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