How to get git to follow symlinks

use_mount_bind

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.

works fine! that trick helped me with subversion too. i use it to include files from an Dropbox account, where a webdesigner does his stuff.

use_symlinks

Git by default attempts to store symlinks instead of following them ( for compactness and its generally what people want )

However, i accidentally managed to get it to add files beyond the symlink when the symlink is a directory.

ie:

  /foo/ 
  /foo/baz
  /bar/foo --> /foo 
  /bar/foo/baz
by doing

 git add /bar/foo/baz
appeared to work when i tried it, that behavior was however unwanted by me at the time, so I Cant give you info beyond that.