How Do I Add A File to The 'Directory' Above My Repos?

Can somebody tell me what is the best way to add a file above my repos? I have five repos as such:

/home/Peter/repos/

-repo1 
-repo2 
-repo3 
-repo4 
-repo5

Now, for repo5 I need开发者_如何学运维 to have a file in its parent directory such as:

-repo1 
-repo2 
-repo3 
-repo4 
-pom.xml 
-repo5

Do I need to initialize my repos folder as a repository and then all my current repositories become sub-repositories to that repository?

How do I do this?

Git, unlike SVN, is project-centric. In Subversion you can checkout and track any directory, including repository root directory. In Git however project is the only item you can version.

That being said you essentially have a group of projects on GitHub, there is no accessible parent directory where they are located. Based on your description you should probably have just a single repository with repo1, repo2... subdirectories (these are actually just a maven submodules).

you can't add a file above your repositories root directory.