I put this question forward on Ask Metafilter as well, and I got an
interesting way to do this. I thought I would share. (
http://ask.metafilter.com/249100/Can-a-Git-Branch-Contain-Only-a-Sub-Set-of-the-Repository)
The method involves first creating a branch to contain the "subset" of
files. In th
Happy to say I don't run windows anywhere.
Have you tried making a throw-away test repo and create some symlinks to
see how/if it all works?
On 26/09/2013 8:20 AM, "Dylan Kinnett" wrote:
> Does Git also handle symlinks well for Windows, does anybody know? I'm
> seeing quite a bit of conflicting
Git handles symlinks perfectly.
:-)
On 25/09/2013 2:38 PM, "Dylan Kinnett" wrote:
> That does sound delightfully simple. I just didn't know: how does Git
> handle symbolic links? Thanks for that suggestion. :)
>
> On Sep 25, 2013, at 12:35 AM, Olaf TNSB
> wrote:
>
> Couldn't you keep it really
Dylan Kinnett writes:
> Would it be better, then, to create a fork, instead of a branch? (I don't
> understand forks just yet.) In my situation here, I wouldn't want to treat
> the non-edited files as deleted although I would want to move the changes
> back to the master version, but also I also
Couldn't you keep it really simple, create a sub-directory, "anthology",
and use symbolic links to the files?
Olaf
On 25/09/2013 1:49 PM, "Dylan Kinnett" wrote:
> Would it be better, then, to create a fork, instead of a branch? (I don't
> understand forks just yet.) In my situation here, I woul
Would it be better, then, to create a fork, instead of a branch? (I don't
understand forks just yet.) In my situation here, I wouldn't want to treat
the non-edited files as deleted although I would want to move the changes
back to the master version, but also I also wouldn't want the sub-set to
con
Dylan Kinnett wrote:
> I hope this group is a good place to ask questions like this. I'm new to
> version control, but I'm quickly finding Git to be a great way to manage my
> collection of writings. I do have a question, though. I have, for example,
> a repository that contains 200 .txt files. Eac
