* How to reorganize git tree
@ 2012-01-26 18:35 Alan Edwards
2012-01-26 18:57 ` Ben Walton
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From: Alan Edwards @ 2012-01-26 18:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
I was new to git about a year ago and created a git directory
structure containing several different projects like:
/source/web_server1/project1
/source/web_server1/project2
/source/web_server1/project3
/source/web_server1/project4
/source/web_server2/project5
/source/web_server2/project6
where my massive .git repository is:
/source/.git (containing all the projects on all the web servers....
Oops!) There seems to be lots of "loose objects".
Somewhere along the way I figured out that this probably wasn't a good
idea and I ended up making a git repository under one of the projects:
/source/web_server1/project4/.git
Not sure if that was the best decision either. I've already checked in
changes to the /source/web_server1/project4/.git repository for
project4 and I've checked in changes to project2 into the /source/.git
repository.
Of course I now realize the errors of my way and would like to restructure.
the only changes that have been checked into the big upper level
repository are changes for project2. Is it possible to carve out
those changes from the /source/.git repository and create a new
/source/web_server1/project2/.git repository?
Maybe the way to deal with this is to remove the other directories
from the /source/.git repository and leave project2 there.
Any one have any suggestions?
I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place (I'm at work and
they don't allow access to many places and I don't have access to the
news group).
Thanks!
-Alan Edwards
kae at xnet dot com (my home email address)
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* Re: How to reorganize git tree
2012-01-26 18:35 How to reorganize git tree Alan Edwards
@ 2012-01-26 18:57 ` Ben Walton
2012-01-26 23:27 ` Jakub Narebski
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ben Walton @ 2012-01-26 18:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alan Edwards; +Cc: git
Excerpts from Alan Edwards's message of Thu Jan 26 13:35:05 -0500 2012:
Hi Alan,
> Any one have any suggestions?
I think that git filter-branch is going to be your friend here. I
won't prescribe the details as you should definitely read and
understand the docs for this one, but things like
--subdirectory-filter and/or --tree-filter will be of great use to
you, I think.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
-Ben
--
Ben Walton
Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302
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* Re: How to reorganize git tree
2012-01-26 18:57 ` Ben Walton
@ 2012-01-26 23:27 ` Jakub Narebski
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jakub Narebski @ 2012-01-26 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ben Walton; +Cc: Alan Edwards, git
Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca> writes:
> Excerpts from Alan Edwards's message of Thu Jan 26 13:35:05 -0500 2012:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> > Any one have any suggestions?
>
> I think that git filter-branch is going to be your friend here. I
> won't prescribe the details as you should definitely read and
> understand the docs for this one, but things like
> --subdirectory-filter and/or --tree-filter will be of great use to
> you, I think.
Third-party git-subtree tool can also help here, I think.
--
Jakub Narebski
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