Re: Question about parallel git repos of source/output files

[Urs Liska]

Am 22.12.2013 04:11, schrieb Carl Peterson:
> 2) Is it possible to interleave two repos so that in one folder in the
> main repo, the main repo ignores PDF and MIDI files and the secondary
> repo*only*  tracks PDFs and MIDIs? The files that are actually
> compiled are in a subfolder of the main repository folder.

Do you have something like this:

/
- file1.ly
- file2.ly
/output/
  - file1.pdf
  - file1.midi
  - file2.pdf
  - file2.midi

?

If yes then you can put a second .gitignore file in /output/
Its items are added to the .gitignore in the root directory.

Adding
!*.pdf
!*.midi

will revert the previous exclusions.

Otherwise I don't know of a way to have a doubled repository.

But I'm actually not really sure if your use case really makes sense.
Somehow it looks to me that you'd either want your pdfs to be in a repo 
or not.
In any case, if you _do_ track pdfs (either in the same repo or in a 
separate one) you should take care not to commit each modification 
(after each new compilation) but only 'relevant' ones.

HTH
Urs