How can I get Git to follow symlinks?

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Matt picture Matt · Sep 17, 2008 · Viewed 99.7k times · Source

Is my best be going to be a shell script which replaces symlinks with copies, or is there another way of telling Git to follow symlinks?

PS: I know it's not very secure, but I only want to do it in a few specific cases.

Answer

user252400 picture user252400 · Jan 17, 2010

What I did to add to get the files within a symlink into Git (I didn't use a symlink but):

sudo mount --bind SOURCEDIRECTORY TARGETDIRECTORY

Do this command in the Git-managed directory. TARGETDIRECTORY has to be created before the SOURCEDIRECTORY is mounted into it.

It works fine on Linux, but not on OS X! That trick helped me with Subversion too. I use it to include files from an Dropbox account, where a webdesigner does his/her stuff.

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