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@jarkko how about two repo's or one repo and a submodule and something like mergerfs? Alternatively if the software has something like a search path (like shell or python) you can replicate the same directory structure in both and put private before public in the path.
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thomasmey
thomasmey@social.tchncs.de@jarkko I think this is already possible, you may search for the term "unrelated history", e.g.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1384325/in-git-is-there-a-simple-way-of-introducing-an-unrelated-branch-to-a-repository
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I explained myself badly.
Git as GIT_DIR and --git-dir for specifying location of the ".git".
What would be nice if there was also something like --git-dir-alias or similar for specifying non-standard name for that directory.
Then I could along the lines of
git clone <project URL>
cd <project>
export GIT_DIR_ALIAS=".git-private"
git init && git remote -add origin <private data URL> && git fetch origin && git reset --hard origin/main
unset GIT_DIR_ALIAS
It's not uncommon to initialize Git repositories to populated directories. E.g. that is how I clone my home directory skeleton on a new system:
git clone https://codeberg.org/jarkko/skeleton
git reset --hard origin/main
This is just extension to it. Home directories are great example use case also because then you could have separate Git repositories, if you want to isolate settings of a particular program but still have means to deploy them under the same root where they are cloned.
Git as GIT_DIR and --git-dir for specifying location of the ".git".
What would be nice if there was also something like --git-dir-alias or similar for specifying non-standard name for that directory.
Then I could along the lines of
git clone <project URL>
cd <project>
export GIT_DIR_ALIAS=".git-private"
git init && git remote -add origin <private data URL> && git fetch origin && git reset --hard origin/main
unset GIT_DIR_ALIAS
It's not uncommon to initialize Git repositories to populated directories. E.g. that is how I clone my home directory skeleton on a new system:
git clone https://codeberg.org/jarkko/skeleton
git reset --hard origin/main
This is just extension to it. Home directories are great example use case also because then you could have separate Git repositories, if you want to isolate settings of a particular program but still have means to deploy them under the same root where they are cloned.
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Also you might want to keep your account files for command-line tools in a different private repository even if it does not contain passwords (as it shouldn't but instead use pass). It still contains e.g., email addresses and stuff like that.
Without a special Git feature you need to fix the problem in your configuration. I.e copy the files from a clone, which is incovenient.
Without a special Git feature you need to fix the problem in your configuration. I.e copy the files from a clone, which is incovenient.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@thomasmey i'm aware of this stuff but yeah i'm talking about something much more simple and stupid (see my respnoses) :-)
I even have developed this small function to my shell config number of years ago that pulls tag from any git repository to another that I've sometimes found convenient:
function git-fetch-tag
git fetch --no-tags "$argv[1]" "refs/tags/$argv[2]:refs/tags/$argv[2]"
end
(currrently a fish version of it :-) )
I even have developed this small function to my shell config number of years ago that pulls tag from any git repository to another that I've sometimes found convenient:
function git-fetch-tag
git fetch --no-tags "$argv[1]" "refs/tags/$argv[2]:refs/tags/$argv[2]"
end
(currrently a fish version of it :-) )
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