Folks: I have a /home/paulf/stow directory with contains subdirectories for each of the packages whose dotfiles I want to manage, like:
/home/paulf/stow/alacritty In each subdirectory, I have all the config files for that packages, under git management. This means that the directory will look like this: /home/paulf/stow/alacritty/.git /home/paulf/stow/alacritty/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml This works well with stow (configs are now symlinks in $HOME). I'd like to copy all of this to a git repo on gitlab. You would think you could go to the ~/stow directory, "git init", then "git add" each directory, and all is good. However, git looks inside the directories and sees there are already .git directories there, and refuses to add the directories and their contents to its repo. Instead, it wants you to use "submodules", to wit: git submodule add ./alacritty This adds an *empty* alacritty subdirectory to the git repo, which isn't useful. I need a way to bring all these subdirectories and their contents under a git repo so I can send it to gitlab. Any suggestions? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
