Re: Is it possible to have a file shared between branches?

Eric LEBIGOT [off-list ref] writes:

Thank you!  I can see what is done in the git.git repository, thanks
to your pointer, and it looks like I'm trying to get from git.  But
how do you create and manage such an independent 'todo' branch?  This
branch appears on the same level as master, in the pages you gave, but
you also mention a "non versioned Meta/ directory".  Does this mean
that the file structure is like the following?

 ./.git
 Meta/.git
 Meta/<todo files>

If yes, how do all branches appear at the same level in
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=summary ?  If no, how was the
todo' branch created?  (I would love to have the todo file in the same
directory as the rest.)

The way this was arranged was simply:

	$ mkdir Meta
        $ cd Meta && git init
        $ do a lot of work that creates files you see on 'todo'
        $ git commit
        $ git push k.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git master:todo
	$ cd .. ;# back to the primary working tree.

And the last step could have been to push into /pub/scm/git/git-todo.git/
iow a separate repository.

The _only_ reason 'todo' and 'master' live in the same repository is
because I only have write privilege to /pub/scm/git/git.git/ and not at
the /pub/scm/git/ level.  Having these unrelated branches in the same
repository is nothing to find cool and imitate; I'd recommend not to do it
if you don't have to.

Having these unrelated branches published in the same repository helps
distribution a bit, but it never helps the use of the contents in these
branches.