GIT Branch Specific Files?

Question

I am wondering if it is possible to say have a main repo with everything I need, config, application code, etc. (This is a MVC environment) and create branches from a main GIT repo with just certain models,controllers,and views.

So I would have a main repo with

applications/*
assets/*
system/*

And I would have a branch with

applications/controllers/controller_name.php
applications/model/model_name.php
applications/views/view_name.php
assets/modules/controller_name/*

Then I could merge that branch into the main repo for each new "MVC setup"

Does this make sense? And can it be done?

Answer 1

Git does not branch on a per-file basis, it branches on a repository basis.

That said, just because you make a branch with the entire repo doesn't mean you have to have all of the same files in each branch.