From: Petr Baudis Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:25:43 GMT Subject: Re: Best way to generate a git tree containing only a subset of commits from another tree? Message-ID: <20060323002543.GU18185@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:28:52PM CET, I got a letter where Anton Altaparmakov said that... > Preferable I would like to do it so that later when Linus has pulled from > my /usr/src/linux-2.6 tree, I do a "git pull" of Linus' tree from > /usr/src/my-big-tree and it all works correctly and I don't end up with > the same commits twice. > > Is that possible at all? Not with Git - you will end up with the same commits twice, once when you originally committed them and once coming cherry-picked from your linux-2.6 tree through Linus' tree. > If not what can I do to do it cleanly? Does git help in any way or do I > literally have to export all my commits from /usr/src/my-big-tree to diff > style patches and then throw away the tree, clone Linus tree after he has > pulled my /usr/src/linux-2.6 tree and commit all my generated diff patches > again? That would be rather horrible to have to do... Yes, that's the way to go, but actually it's not horrible at all because there's a tool to help you - check out StGIT, which will let you maintain a stack of patches on top of a git tree and do all sorts of cool stuff with them (including rebasing them to new tree revision, the most important thing for you). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time. I think I have forgotten this before.