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Re: publish since current state?

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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 17, 2008, 07:21 UTC
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Gennady Kushnir wrote:
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> 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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