From: Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Splitting up a repository
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:19:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF9DD5E.7020400@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101204053304.GA7311@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On 12/3/2010 23:33, Jeff King wrote:
>> Is there a better way than making several (recursive) copies of the
>> repository, deleting all but one directory in each copy, then moving the
>> contents of that directory up a level? (And perhaps setting up a Git
>> superproject at the original location. I do know about that.)
>
> Rewrite the history of each directory with git-filter-branch. It even
> has a "--subdirectory-filter" option that will do exactly what you want.
Great, thanks. I had to mess around with a submodule that was inside one
of the subdirectories that didn't make it through the history rewrite,
and I could see that have getting slightly hairy, but at least in my
case it was pretty simple. Other than that, worked like a charm.
Evan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-04 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-04 5:27 Splitting up a repository Evan Driscoll
2010-12-04 5:33 ` Jeff King
2010-12-04 6:19 ` Evan Driscoll [this message]
2010-12-04 7:09 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-12-04 7:14 ` Evan Driscoll
2010-12-04 7:41 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
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