git: How do you add an external directory to the repository?

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Published on 2010-03-05T00:30:59Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 3:30 UTC
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I want to add an external directory to an existing repository.

External Dir: /home/some/directory

Working Dir: /htdocs/.git

If I attempt the following command from the /htdocs dir:

git add /home/some/directory

I get an error: fatal: '/home/some/directory' is outside repository

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