Re: removing content from git history

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 21, 2007, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20070221183754.GK25559@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070221183028.GA9088@ginosko.local>

Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org> wrote:

> What's a decent way to make a branch into a new repository?  My first
> inclination is to "cp -a" the existing repository, checkout the branch,
> delete all other branches and repack.  That seems to have worked in my
> quick test, but is there a better way?

Don't "cp -a" the repository, use git-clone.

And actually, if you just want to pull one branch out into its own repository you can do something like this:

	mkdir ../theonebranch
	cd ../theonebranch
	git init
	git fetch ../oldstuff theonebranch:master

and you have just the content of `theonebranch` from ../oldstuff stored here, as master.

Optionally if you now want to actually see the files, you would do:

	git checkout

-- 
Shawn.