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I'm using a repository (B) as a submodule of my project (A). In that repo (B), there is an ingored directory, dedicated to local config files for that project. I'd like to version the content of that directory from my own project (A). Since those files are gitignored from (B), I thought I could simply git-add them but I get fatal: Pathspec 'oh-my-zsh/custom' is in submodule 'oh-my-zsh' . What is the best way to do that (I'd rather not change anyting in (B))? I'd suggest using a symlink to the local files: a ├── b │ └── local -> ../b-local └── b-local This nicely separates content of repo a

I am trying to figure out the best way to handle node_modules in git. From what I read, there are two options: A. Keep all the node_modules in the git repository, together with my project. This way, a person cloning my project does not have to install any modules. B. Don't keep any node_modules in the git repository, i.e., have a ".gitignore" file that contains "node_modules". However, in some projects, I don't see any of these two options. For example, in this node.js project , there are no node_modules, but also no .gitignore file... When I fork this repo, and do npm install , the folder is

I am using laravel 5.5's storage symlink to store images. When I push code to the git and pull from live site then symlink path on live site becomes same as is on my local code . My local has this symlink storage -> /home/path/to/project/app/public/ But live site expects this symlink path storage -> /var/www/html/website.com/public_html/project_code/storage/app/public/ Every time I have to delete symlink and create it again on live site. I have do these steps on live site cd public rm storage cd .. php artisan storage:link after doing these steps my symlink becomes according to live site and

I'm using git to manage an extended CodeIgniter Framework. It's a clone of the current CI release with extra helpers, libraries ect. I have many sites all using this framework and if I add a new helper method or fix a bug in one site I want to be able to easily update all the other sites without overwriting any of their custom files. I wish to achieve the following workflow Create a new site directory git init to initialise a blank local git repo Link this with the remote framework repo git remote add origin git@github.com:username/framework_repo Pull a fresh copy of the remote framework git

Referring to the online docs : If the pattern does not contain a slash /, Git treats it as a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the pathname relative to the location of the .gitignore file (relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a .gitignore file). To me, this documentation says that given a pattern 'foo', any file or directory named 'foo' will be ignored only relative to the .gitignore file. I don't read anything explaining its recursive behavior. Shell globs (from what I read and experience) are not recursive. Now further below it explains the double asterisk: A