From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach filter-branch about subdirectory filtering Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:19:49 +0200 Organization: eudaptics software gmbh Message-ID: <46690315.8244CAF7@eudaptics.com> References: <7vzm3bmfeq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 08 09:19:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HwYkf-0007JI-9X for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:19:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966588AbXFHHTA (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 03:19:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966440AbXFHHS7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 03:18:59 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37299 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965869AbXFHHS5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 03:18:57 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HwYk5-00057J-FP for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:18:41 +0200 Received: from cm56-163-160.liwest.at ([86.56.163.160]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:18:41 +0200 Received: from J.Sixt by cm56-163-160.liwest.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:18:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm56-163-160.liwest.at X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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