compleatang/Move Git Directory Away

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This is useful if you want to track your dropbox or gdrive files with git but do not want all the git files to be taking up the space and sync bandwidth of dropbox/gdrive. It assumes that your project is already built.... credit to @braitsch's reply to this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5408475/moving-a-git-repository-up-one-hi…

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Move Git Directory Away

	cd <destination>
	mv <source>/.git ./.git
	git config core.worktree /absolute/path/to/project-files

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