# comment manager is an individual project<br /> ~/projects/comment-manager/ # nextbigthing is the main project comment manager is /var/www/nextbigthing/ $ cd ~/Sites/nextbigthing/ # lets create softlink in /var/www/nextbigthing/ $ ln -s ~/projects/comment-manager/ comments $ ls -ltr lrwxr-xr-x 1 napoleon staff 41 Nov 21 03:15 comments@ -> /Users/napoleon/projects/comments-manager # Now if you try to add the folder comments inside ~/Sites/nextbigthing/ to git using $ cd ~/Sites/nextbigthing/ $ git add comments $ git commit -m ‘Adding comments manager thats somewhere out there’ $ # This will add only a file with the path ‘/User/napoleon/projects/comment-manager` and nothing else.