Setting up .git folder in a custom location

Question

Here's my current dir structure:

• mygit
• code
  • .git
  • morecode
    • mycode

1. The code folder is monitored by git and git's files are in the usual code/.git
2. I am working only on a piece of this code, i.e. mycode

I'd like to use git to manage my code, but I don't want its files to be put in the expected code/morecode/mycode/.git, but rather outside of the code folder, e.g. in mygit.

Any ideas how to do that?

Answer 1

Also, instead of using a symbolic link, you can simply make .git a regular file and put a path in it:

$ echo gitdir: /path/to/gitdir > .git