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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: "Kovacs, Levente" <leventelist@gmail.com>,
	Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: split up a repository
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:40:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1003020240h81f3e99wea1185c080a03b0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100302011226.76fda85d@gmail.com>

Heya,

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 01:12, Kovacs, Levente <leventelist@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I split up a single repo to several others? It would be nice to
> keep the history.

Sounds like a job for.... subtree man! Avery (cc-ed) has written a
program 'git subtree' that lets you split off subtrees from a git
repository (and optionally merge them back later on). I reckon that's
what you want, yes?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-02 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-02  0:12 split up a repository Kovacs, Levente
2010-03-02  0:36 ` Chris Packham
2010-03-02 10:40 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2010-03-02 23:21   ` Levente Kovacs
2010-03-02 23:19     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-03-03  1:40     ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-03 14:04       ` Bill Lear
2010-03-03 19:19         ` Avery Pennarun

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