From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:33:13 GMT
Subject: Re: import files w/ history
Message-ID: <20090306153313.GL4371@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <slrngr299k.1t4t.csaba-ml@beastie.creo.hu>

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:29:38PM +0000, Csaba Henk <csaba-ml@creo.hu> wrote:
> $ git filter-branch --commit-filter '
>    if [ $# -lt 3 ] || git diff --stat $3 $1 | grep -q 'sys/dev/disk/vn/vn\.c'
>    then
>      git commit-tree "$@"
>    else
>      skip_commit "$@"
>    fi' HEAD

Did you notice --subdirectory-filter? Maybe it would be more efficient
to run --subdirectory-filter sys/dev/disk/vn first, then you can play
with the resulting small repo to suit your needs. :)