Re: split directories into branches

From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 4, 2016, 18:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH_OBie4dUB8WXfmKhLaezVKi0=LhnFw=wKJO1c3oUMA7VkYdw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160704203946.3ac8d3205c08bfaee9a93a46@domain007.com>

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 12:45:39 -0400
> shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>

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> To achieve what you're after I used `git subtree split` followed by
> `git filter-branch --tree-filter ...` which moved all the files under
> the directory hierarchy `git subtree split` removes.
>

Ah, that looks like it should work - thanks

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> I know Git tracks content, not files (and directory) but still many
> folks have "stable" directories for their files, assign certain
> semantics to them etc.  I've needed such transfers myself, and this
> topic has been raised more than once by folks over there on the
> git-users mailing list.

Or just an option for git {rm,mv,cp} that would allow simple rewriting of history. Ie: git mv HEAD~3.. -- foo bar (obviously not the sanest thing in most cases but would be a shorter reach than filter-branch - and if newest isn't head then it'd what? move it back during commits for who knows what - still...)

Thanks for pointing out the users list - didn't notice it and sorry for posting a user question on a dev list.