I use to manage my dotfiles with a git bare repository. However some of my dotfiles are already in git repositories existing for a long time. I dont want to lose all the change history so I would prefer keeping the repo.
When I try to add those files into my git bare repository git seems to ignore them. Is there any way to have the same file in two different repos (one a local git repo and one a git bare repo)?
Best regards
I did
git --git-dir=/home/user/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME add localrepo/file
and expected the file localrepo/file to be staged.
localrepo is a git repository itself and nothing happened.
If I do the same for files which are not in git repositories everything happens as expected