From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Whit Armstrong" Subject: Re: is it possible filter the revision history of a single file into another repository? Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:08:23 -0500 Message-ID: <8ec76080812190508v2ef0f982pab66a698f06a80d5@mail.gmail.com> References: <8ec76080812180551p8c97a0dqa2025e67792946c7@mail.gmail.com> <8ec76080812180619k78a28e30t591b514148202869@mail.gmail.com> <8ec76080812181151y4a5a6f5cna57785c935032e77@mail.gmail.com> <200812191044.47830.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" To: "Thomas Jarosch" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 19 14:09:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LDf6u-0008MI-Io for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:09:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752882AbYLSNI0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:08:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752853AbYLSNI0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:08:26 -0500 Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.170.185]:59091 "EHLO rn-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752780AbYLSNIZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:08:25 -0500 Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k40so711709rnd.17 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:08:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=yYHu9K4peVJo/86VHHTtxXeqR9nTVAeBOilHI2Mxlyk=; b=Tpd1kvvUhoAyLe7l8QxyVAovGjuqQU2tgOMYXddyxaTvrhcwJ+UN5QgBNpFKoH915g 9IRsr2LCna3hB/0sSracOT7TZaord4+r1fotNWCBTkErOc+gJO6PNmlEWFDCKbS5LbNg lcXYAAhCrrlUUCam6mFdcuMLZ1gIiwqXLWLGg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=CVjSdwL5HtOBNVnDCmPXvr+V/O3JWhboAYi94/WRm0b4zYd3TixkkwWu7BSJ3Eurvw TUSs0PMdFqIhfgfLM4mFmk+YFbadQvEoynpsnkt2ATulIGhLlAYGxzHANYHeaR31eQk5 teX8sbIDsdEF7Q3/Upw8vqB1v+JG2lQqS/DO4= Received: by 10.151.43.13 with SMTP id v13mr1528662ybj.46.1229692103874; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.151.125.1 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:08:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200812191044.47830.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: thanks, Thomas. I could definitely pull from your tree. seems like the path of least resistance to get my repo split. Cheers, Whit On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Thomas Jarosch wrote: > On Thursday, 18. December 2008 20:51:38 Whit Armstrong wrote: >> Sorry, seem to be getting this error: >> `/home/whit/dvl/risk.metrics.utils/RiskMetrics/.git-rewrite/t/../index.new' >>: No such file or directory >> >> do I need to set up the index file first? > > Hmm, I guess you have an empty commit in your repository like I did. > This is currently a corner case in update-index, which does not create empty > index files. I posted a patch a few days ago and Junio posted an updated > version of that. I could send you my version for git 1.6.0.5 if you need it. > >> Is there a good site that documents this procedure? > > A good start is the git-filter-branch man page and the mailinglist archive. > > Thomas > >