hard and soft links

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Uwe,

On Wednesday, 2016-11-30 13:59:02 +0000, you wrote:

> ...
> The file in question is a so called bibtex file, a bibliographic
> database for all my latex files, called bibgraf.bib. It is placed in
> $HOME/bib ($HOME/bib/bibgraf.bib) and is under HG control.
> ...
> However I have now a new directory say $HOME/publications/newresult
> newresult is now a different repo, contains various latex files and I
> pushed it to bitbucket for collaboration. I would like also to include, somehow,
> the bibgraf.bib file in the sense that it is pushed and pulled to the
> bitbucket repo.
> $HOME/publications/newresult/bibgraf.bib

Why not simply move "bibgraf.bib"  from repository "$HOME/bib/" into re-
pository "$HOME/publications/newresult/"  and installing a symbolic link
"bibgraf.bib" in the former repository?

Sincerely,
  Rainer