Re: [PATCH] Teach filter-branch about subdirectory filtering

[Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> It's just a guess, but now that we come really, really close to having a
> concise implementation of git-subproject which will probably soon
> propagate to master, and then maint, I gather that more and more people
> come and want to split their projects (which they maintained as one big
> project) into several subprojects (which they should have been from the
> start, but the tool did not easily allow for that).

I think that --subdirectry-filter needs to become a bit smarter to be
really useful for splitting a big project into sub-projects plus a
super-project. The reason is that once you have extracted the
sub-project(s), you have a hard time to find out which commits to
gitlink into the super-project. I don't have a plan how to make it
smarter, though.

-- Hannes