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How to detach the local git repository from its working directory?

i’m trying to have that in order to integrate it with dropbox, is there a way to have this?
what i want to achieve is have a different folder not in dropbox which will store my .git so that it won’t collide with different users.

Answer 1

The GIT_DIR, .git by default, holds all the repository-specific data. You can set the GIT_DIR environment variable to essentially anything, even directories outside the current project.

For example, from within the root of a typical Git project:

$ git status
# On branch master
# ...
#   modified:   config/environment.rb

If you move the .git directory elsewhere…

$ mv .git ~/my-project-git-dir

… Git will no longer recognize the directory itself as a Git project:

$ git status
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Unless you explicitly tell it where to find the Git directory for this project:

$ GIT_DIR=~/my-project-git-dir git status
# On branch master
# ...
#   modified:   config/environment.rb