Re: Breaking up repositories

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Josh Triplett wrote:
> Jason Sewall wrote:

>> I recently imported my subversion repo with git-svn and I'm curious
>> what the best way to break up the monolithic repo (my many disparate
>> projects from my single svn repo) into individual git repos of their
>> own.
> 
> In the specific case of git-svn, you can probably give git-svn the
> appropriate paths to import each project separately; that may do what you
> want, depending on your repository layout.
> 
> In the general case, if you want to split a subtree of a git repo into a git
> repo, you want git-split, by Jamey Sharp and I:
> <http://people.freedesktop.org/~jamey/git-split>
> From a copy of the git repo you want to split, just run "git-split subdir",
> optionally with a newest and oldest commit, and it will output the sha1 of
> the new top commit for use as the new branch ref.  Remove all other
> branches, reflogs, and other references to the old commits, and use prune
> or gc to get rid of old objects.  Repeat as desired for other subdirs.

I have added info about git-split to Git Wiki
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools

Please improve this information, and correct if it is wrong.
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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