From: Seth Robertson <in-gitvger@baka.org>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 15:35:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Private/public branches/repos workflow
Message-ID: <201105051535.p45FZQDY019419@no.baka.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=TLeePH0JDvnE0XPiCzXFxid9BWQ@mail.gmail.com>


In message <BANLkTi=TLeePH0JDvnE0XPiCzXFxid9BWQ@mail.gmail.com>, Jerome Martin
writes:

    Is there any recommended workflow to achieve the result I am looking
    for ? How are other people doing it ?

Create an orphan branch.  Commit what you want onto it.  Push branch
to a new repo as master.

git checkout <basesha>
git checkout --orphan cleanmaster
git add -A
git commit -m "base of public release"
(mkdir ../newrepo; cd ../newrepo; git init --bare)
git remote add cleanremote ../newrepo
git push cleanremote cleanmaster:master

You can then cherry pick/rebase from previous branches onto
cleanmaster any subsequent commits that you want to keep history for.

Another approach might be to finesse a shallow clone to do what you
want.

					-Seth Robertson