I'm not really sure what you're looking for with your first question, but for the second, it sounds like you want submodules/superproject: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Dale R. Worley <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > I am just beginning to use git. I've read the O'Reilly book (by > Loeliger and McCullough), and (unexpectedly) it didn't give me a clear > view of some of the messier aspects of git. So as a first question, > I'd like to know if anyone knows of an exposition that gives a clear > and accurate description of the logical structure of git repositories > and git operations. > > As a second question, consider a situation I am now in. I've been > using git to maintain a repository of a directory. I now want to > start tracking all the files in the *parent* of that directory, > continuing the history of all the files that are now in the > repository. I know how to use Subversion to do this, with one or two > commands I can move the repository files into a subordinate directory > in the repository. But what is the correct way to do this in git? > > Thanks, > > Dale > > -- > > > --
