Re: publish since current state?

From: Gennady Kushnir <genkush@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 17, 2008, 10:52 UTC
Message-ID: <23ae57c00811170252uba2cd22kb99a23134f026fc6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49211B78.50204@op5.se>

Thank your for your reply. But I could not find documentation for grafts... it is only mentioned in glossary. The only thing I found with google is 1-year-old a mail list post http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119636089519572&w=2 could you point out some direct link to grafts documentation?

And also - what you mean by "copy the object database from the old repository into the new one" ? I'm not aware of such operation. What command does it? And will not that copied database go online as dangling objects?

Gennady Kushnir

2008/11/17 Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:

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> Gennady Kushnir wrote:
>>
>> Hello list.
>> I'm going to publish my work into online public repository.
>> I have several months of previous history in my local git repo. And I
>> don't want to make it all public.
>> Is it possible to publish just a shallow copy of my repository storing
>> my current tree?
>
> Yes. Look for 'grafts' in the documentation. You'll have to create a
> new repository containing only the most recent code first, and then
> create the grafts-file in that repository and copy the object database
> from the old repository into the new one.
>
>> I'd also like to keep my local history private but push new commits
>> from it into that online repo.
>>
>
> The grafts solution will work like that, assuming you don't publish
> your grafts-file.
>
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