[git-users] linking/sync individual files from different folders in the same repo

2014-09-04 Thread Norike Abe
I'm studying the migration from our old Version Manager, Team Coherence http://www.teamcoherence.com/, to Git. One of the features we use in that system are file links: Imagine a repo with this file structure: - MyRepo1 - Folder1 - *FileA* - FileB - Folder2 - *FileA* - FileC

Re: [git-users] linking/sync individual files from different folders in the same repo

2014-09-04 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: Norike Abe nor...@gmail.com I'm studying the migration from our old Version Manager, Team Coherence http://www.teamcoherence.com/, to Git. One of the features we use in that system are file links: Imagine a repo with this file structure: - MyRepo1 - Folder1 - *FileA* -

Re: [git-users] linking/sync individual files from different folders in the same repo

2014-09-04 Thread Norike Abe
Thanks for the comments, Dale! What I don't see is why you'd want to have what is intended to be one file implemented by two different files. That requires some sort of machinery to ensure that the two instances of the file are always the same, and introduces the constant possiblity of