From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Barbato Subject: moving self contained subdirectories from a project to another Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:24:25 +0200 Message-ID: <46767979.2030303@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 18 14:21:16 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 1I0GEM-0001AQ-62 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:21:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761487AbXFRMVM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:21:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754403AbXFRMVM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:21:12 -0400 Received: from smtp-out1.libero.it ([212.52.84.41]:58609 "EHLO smtp-out1.libero.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760866AbXFRMVL (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:21:11 -0400 Received: from mailrelay07.libero.it (172.31.0.114) by smtp-out1.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4611FD1805244F89 for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:21:09 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAFQVdkaXK+9ATWdsb2JhbAANjwABARsSEg Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.0.6]) ([151.43.239.64]) by outrelay07.libero.it with ESMTP; 18 Jun 2007 14:21:09 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070607) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Lately I'm trying to move a subdirectory from one project to another, both tracked in git. This directory is currently duplicated in two different projects and my plan was to remove it from those and make a library so it could be shared between them. Now, the simple way would be get a scratchpad branch, prune everything but what I want, push to the library repo, make the projects use it. There is already a script that automates this task? There are any pitfalls I'm not considering? lu PS: keep me on CC since I'm not subscribed -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero