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icebraining on July 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: US Declaration of Independence first and final dra...

You can track a git repo inside another, as long as the "inner repo" is bare (otherwise git will add it as a submodule instead).

Bromskloss on July 2, 2016 [–]

OK. How do you edit the inner repository, if it's bare? Do you have to clone it to a different directory, make changes, and then push it back to the original place?

icebraining on July 2, 2016 | [–]

Yeah, I think so.

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