Special branch for remote

Special branch for remote

[Paulo J. Matos]

Hi all,

I have a huge repository for a software I am developing. In it I have 
source code, docs, experiments, tests, etc. However, I want to push only 
the src/ to the github remote, nothing else. What's the best way to 
achieve this. Do I need to simply create a new branch and then push the 
new branch to github or there's anything else involved that I need to know?

Cheers,

-- 
PMatos

Re: Special branch for remote

[Phil Hord]

On 07/27/2011 04:18 AM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a huge repository for a software I am developing. In it I have
> source code, docs, experiments, tests, etc. However, I want to push
> only the src/ to the github remote, nothing else. What's the best way
> to achieve this. Do I need to simply create a new branch and then push
> the new branch to github or there's anything else involved that I need
> to know?
>

Yes, you can do this with branches. See [1] for an example of a similar
workflow.

You can also manage this with submodules [2] or subtree-merge [3].

I prefer submodules since it keeps the huge stuff (docs and bins) away
from my source code and makes my source code repo much more responsive.

[1] http://www.braintreepayments.com/devblog/our-git-workflow
[2] http://progit.org/book/ch6-6.html
[3] http://progit.org/book/ch6-7.html

HTH,
Phil

Re: Special branch for remote

[Paulo J. Matos]

On 27/07/11 15:35, Phil Hord wrote:
>
> You can also manage this with submodules [2] or subtree-merge [3].
>
> I prefer submodules since it keeps the huge stuff (docs and bins) away
> from my source code and makes my source code repo much more responsive.
>

Thanks Phil, I will be looking at this solution then.

Cheers,
-- 
PMatos