Re: Publishing "filtered branch repositories" - workflow / recommendations?

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 5, 2013, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID: <CACPiFCKZ4c-FgY36Y8J8OJ9E=MYxrc1BNadBF2QUWm_PD8KMLw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a reasonable approach to scripting this?

Found my answers.

The 'subtree' merge strategy is smart enough to "mostly" help here. However, it does not handle new files created in the subdirectory.

My workflow is this one. It is similar to the recipes for the subtree merge strategies, but invoking git mv to pull files out of the

git merge -s ours --no-commit upstream/branch git read-tree --prefix= -u upstream/branch git mv mysubdir/* ./ ### read-tree can't do this git commit

... time passes

git merge -s subtree --no-commit upstream/branch
if [ -d mysubdir ]; then
    # handle new files
    git mv mysubdir/* ./
fi
git commit

glad that I ended up reading a lot about subtree.

cheers,

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