From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach filter-branch about subdirectory filtering
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 23:05:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070608210505.GA3025@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706080130000.4046@racer.site>
Johannes Schindelin, Fri, Jun 08, 2007 02:30:35 +0200:
>
> With git-filter-branch --subdirectory-filter <subdirectory> you can
> get at the history, as seen by a certain subdirectory. The history
> of the rewritten branch will only contain commits that touched that
> subdirectory, and the subdirectory will be rewritten to be the new
> project root.
>
Maybe it could be made more general
--subdirectory-filter <from> [--subdirectory-filter-to <to>]
<to> meaning root by default, and allow multiple filters to be set?
You would have to deal with file name conflicts in case some filters
refer to the same target directory, though.
It has already been asked how to split a project into many projects
based on directory boundaries. That'd help...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-08 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-08 0:30 [PATCH] Teach filter-branch about subdirectory filtering Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-08 0:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-08 5:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-08 7:19 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-06-08 13:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-08 13:19 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-06-08 21:05 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
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