I've got a weird situation I need help with. I'm working with a group of incarcerated software developers whose work needs to be synchronized with the outside. Prisoners, of course, are not allowed access to the Internet, although they have their own intranet inside the prison.
The group inside the prison has a Subversion repository that's working just fine. The group outside is using git. There's no direct network communication allowed, but I'm the guy who gets to take a laptop in and out of the prison once a week. What I'd like to do is have a sandbox on my laptop. I'd like to take it into prison and update from their Subversion, then commit the changes from outside to their Subversion repository. (This, of course, means that I have to svn:ignore the .git directory.) Then I'd like to take the laptop back out and do a git add/commit/push sequence to github so that the folks outside can pull those changes. Then, the next week, of course, I want to pull changes down from github into the laptop sandbox and take it in again. The problem I'm having is the .gitignore file. I can't be uploading Subversion's .svn directories to git; I need them to be ignored by git. But nothing I'm trying seems to be working. My latest attempt at .gitignore looks like this: .svn/ */.svn/ */*/.svn/ */*/*/.svn/ */*/*/*/.svn/ .svn/* */.svn/* */*/.svn/* */*/*/.svn/* */*/*/*/.svn/* (Perhaps you sense my desperation.) But git doesn't seem to be ignoring anything other than the .gitignore file. Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong? Maybe my whole concept is incorrect? Thanks... Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to github@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to github+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
