Yes, you'll need to clone again for each subdirectory with that setup.
There are ways to get git to share the space though, check out git-clone's
docs: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git-core/docs/git-clone.html
Basically you would clone the main repo once from GitHub, then clone from
your local repo using the --shared flag. After you've cloned locally, you
can add a remote to github so that you can push from that repo.
I have a question here though... why do you want to do this? You're
basically going around and adding a bunch of complexity that, in the end,
lands you right back where you would be if you simply committed everything
as subdirectories in the same branch.
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:38 PM, John W. Long <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would really like to have several repositories for an application to
> store the various design and development resources. A project
> directory typically has the following subdirectories:
>
> project-name/
> artwork/ # logos, etc...
> mockups/ # mockups of application screens
> prototype/ # raw html and css
> application/ # the rails application
>
> So for "project-name" I'd have repositories for artwork, mockups,
> etc... The problem with this approach on Github is that for one
> project it will consume 4 slots. If I do this for every project I'll
> bump over my current plan's repository limits rather quickly.
>
> So I thought about storing these different subdirectories in git
> branches. This way I would have one repository with artwork, mockups,
> etc... branches. I have heard that some git projects do this. (For
> example, the git repository for git has a "docs" branch.)
>
> This would work well for me, but I'd like to have the branches broken
> out into separate directories on my hardrive. This would allow me to
> run the prototype and the application concurrently and work on mockups
> in my graphics program.
>
> Is there a way to do this without cloning the repository multiple
> times and switching to the correct branch in each directory? The
> downside of that approach is that with 4 subdirectories and lots of
> binary files, it will consume 8x the necessary disk space.
>
> --
> John Long
> http://wiseheartdesign.com
>
> >
>
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