From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daed Lee Subject: Partially private repository? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:01:50 -0500 Message-ID: <78d8a6b51001291401ib93976el25c03694d53aaced@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 29 23:02:01 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nayuc-0003SK-Fs for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:01:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754635Ab0A2WBx (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:01:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751600Ab0A2WBw (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:01:52 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:62362 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751123Ab0A2WBw (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:01:52 -0500 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so98310ewy.21 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:01:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.97.4 with SMTP id j4mr1355059ebn.9.1264802510895; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:01:50 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I'm wondering if git can handle the following use. I have a project that started as private experiment, but has morphed into something I'd like to release publicly. I want to give others access to the repository, but only to commits after a certain cutoff date. Commits prior to that date have things like hardcoded file paths, emails, etc. that I'd like to keep private. I suppose the easiest thing to do would be to create a new repository, add the project files to it, and make that public, however I'd like to keep my private commit history along with the public commit history going forward in a single repository if possible. Is there a way to do this with git? Appreciate any pointers in the right direction. Thanks.