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Re: [PATCH] Teach filter-branch about subdirectory filtering

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date
Jun 8, 2007, 07:19 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> It's just a guess, but now that we come really, really close to having a
> concise implementation of git-subproject which will probably soon
> propagate to master, and then maint, I gather that more and more people
> come and want to split their projects (which they maintained as one big
> project) into several subprojects (which they should have been from the
> start, but the tool did not easily allow for that).

I think that --subdirectry-filter needs to become a bit smarter to be really useful for splitting a big project into sub-projects plus a super-project. The reason is that once you have extracted the sub-project(s), you have a hard time to find out which commits to gitlink into the super-project. I don't have a plan how to make it smarter, though.

-- Hannes
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  4. Johannes SixtJun 8, 2007
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