Having second repository for syncing is easier than this

[Ciantic]

Sync git maybe done more neatly with having two repositories:

• One for regular development the .git directory in the project root.
• One for continuous commits / syncing .gitsync directory in project root.

The alternate repositories can be achieved with env variables:

• $GIT_DIR - This tells Git where to look for the .git directory. In this way you could be in /tmp/whatever and manage your git repository located in /home/grahamc/my-awesome-files.
• GIT_WORK_TREE - This tells Git where the files are that it is tracking. Using this your .git directory could be in /tmp/whatever and actually have all your checked out files be put in to /home/grahamc/my-awesome-files.

So each continuous / sync committing just uses different $GIT_DIR for that commit call.

Shamelessly copied from "How to have two git repositories in the same directory", there is also script git-multi by grahamc that helps maintaining the alternate repositories.

Update: (I wanted to give example)

In Windows you can init two repositories on same dir just by:

set GIT_DIR=.gitsync
git init
set GIT_DIR=
git init

now you have two repositories .git and .gitsync, that's kinda neat.

[Ciantic]

Note: I'm trying to figure out does GIT allow having different ignore files as well, e.g. .gitsyncignore for the above example.