spflueger / repo-splitter

tool for moving parts of code to another repository (including full history)

Note

It is adviced to use git filter-repo instead of git filter-branch (which is also used in this repo)

How to use

This script helps moving specific files from one repo into new one (including full history) It creates a small shell script that can be used when running the git filter-branch command.

1. Run python generateMoveScript.py --newroot path/you/want/to/strip/away /path/to/your/repo/root paths/to/move This creates a shell script movescript.sh that is used in the second step.

2. chmod u+x /path/to/script

3. Change directory into your repo that you want to move from, then run git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --tree-filter /path/to/script HEAD You can verify the new log via git log

4. Now actually make the changes by running git filter-branch --prune-empty -f --subdirectory-filter newroot

5. If everything is good push to your new repo