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Andrew-Dufresne
Andrew-Dufresne

Reputation: 5624

Can I have a nested git repo inside a git-ignored folder?

I have a git repo which have following folders:

 _includes/
 _layouts/
 _plugins/
 _posts/
 _site/

_site folder is added in the .gitignore file.

Now can I have a git repo inside _site folder with different remote repo for push and pull? Will there be any conflict?

I have studied git submodules but I think it would be a overkill in my case, if the above stated method can work.

Upvotes: 38

Views: 7533

Answers (2)

mpdaugherty
mpdaugherty

Reputation: 1170

Yes - I just tried it. Here is my command line session:

$ mkdir temp
$ cd temp
$ git init 
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/mpdaugherty/temp/.git/
$ git add .
$ git status
# On branch master
#
# Initial commit
#
nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
$ echo 'ignore' >> .gitignore
$ git add .
$ git commit -a -m 'first commit'
[master (root-commit) 17d293c] first commit
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
$ mkdir ignore
$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
$ cd ignore
$ git init .
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/mpdaugherty/temp/ignore/.git/
$ echo 'Some text' > somefile.txt
$ git status
# On branch master
#
# Initial commit
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#   somefile.txt
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
$ git add .
$ git commit -a -m 'initial commit'
[master (root-commit) 107f980] initial commit
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 somefile.txt
$ cd ..
$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

Upvotes: 12

Juan G. Hurtado
Juan G. Hurtado

Reputation: 2137

I think it should work. For main repo, _site folder does not exists. So what you have inside it doesn't matter. When you cd into _site you will be on that independent repo.

Upvotes: 24

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