How do I make a folder whose contents are just a reference to another a folder?

Question

I have a folder, x, whose path I don't want to touch, but I want to have a reference to all of the content within x so that I can upload it to github from a different path. How can I make a new folder, y, that holds in memory a reference to x? I plan on only modifying things in folder x, not folder y; folder y just reading the contents of folder x.

Answer 1

Linking as @Terrace said would not work because if you were to change folder x folder y would also change. Why not just duplicate it?

Hope this helps