# [PATCH RFC] subtree: support subtree -P /path/to/file split

1 messages from 2016-08-30 to 2016-08-30. Participants: Ivan Shapovalov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43958

## Ivan Shapovalov, 2016-08-30 09:55

Subject: [PATCH RFC] subtree: support subtree -P /path/to/file split
Message-ID: <20160830095526.15286-1-intelfx@intelfx.name>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20160830095526.15286-1-intelfx%40intelfx.name

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Hello,

I'm missing `git subtree split` functionality for the case when prefix
is a single file. Looking at git-subtree, pretty few changes are needed
to handle this. The attached patch works for me in the common case
(no rejoins). As such, I'm looking for comments :)

Signed-off-by: Ivan Shapovalov <intelfx@intelfx.name>

---
 contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
index dec085a..464dcf7 100755
--- a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
+++ b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh
@@ -485,8 +485,12 @@ subtree_for_commit () {
 	while read mode type tree name
 	do
 		assert test "$name" = "$dir"
-		assert test "$type" = "tree" -o "$type" = "commit"
+		assert test "$type" = "tree" -o "$type" = "commit" -o "$type" = "blob"
 		test "$type" = "commit" && continue  # ignore submodules
+		test "$type" = "blob" && { # handle if $dir is a file
+			printf "%s %s %s\t%s\0" "$mode" "$type" "$tree" "${file##*/}" | git mktree
+			break
+		}
 		echo $tree
 		break
 	done
-- 
2.9.3


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