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A repo is a subdirectory but you'd rather the repo were the parent directory. How do you do that?
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| I need a git power user to confirm that the steps below are correct before I pull the trigger and risk | |
| completely hosing my repo... | |
| I'm referencing this github helpdoc: https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-subtree-merge | |
| Assume a directory structure of (note: directory names have been changed to protect the innocent): | |
| Animals/ | |
| Apes/ | |
| Cats/ | |
| .git/ | |
| Dogs/ | |
| Rodents/ | |
| Long ago you created a github repo for Cats. Now you'd rather you had the repo on Animals to include | |
| all subdirectories, not just Cats. You'd like to move the Cats repo and history into Animals. So, in | |
| the directory view, you'd rather the above were this: | |
| Animals/ | |
| .git/ | |
| Apes/ | |
| Cats/ | |
| Dogs/ | |
| Rodents/ | |
| How do you do this while still maintaining the history of the Cats repo? | |
| Step 1: Get Cats out of the way | |
| $ cd Animals | |
| $ mv Cats .. | |
| Step 2: Create a repo in Animals | |
| $ cd Animals | |
| $ git init | |
| $ touch .gitignore | |
| $ git add .gitignore | |
| $ git commit -m "Adding .gitignore to new Animals repo" | |
| Step 3: Clone Cats | |
| $ git remote add -f Cats git://github.com/yournamehere/Cats.git | |
| Step 4: Merge Cats with Animals | |
| $ git merge -s ours --no-commit Cats/master # check what merge will do before committing | |
| $ git read-tree --prefix=Cats/ -u Cats/master # read the Cats tree info into the index | |
| $ git commit -m "MOAR CATS" # commit them kitties to the Animal repo | |
| Then add the Apes, Dogs and Rodents subdirs to the new Animals repo. This is standard directory adding | |
| stuff and requires no special handling. | |
| Once Cats is merged into Animals, you can delete the old Cats repo. |
A quick & dirty, stone knives & bearskins approach:
- Change the Cats repo's name to Animals, locally, on remote host, etc.
mkdir Catsgit mv foo Cats/- commit
- add Apes, Rodents, etc.
- profit?
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Ah, ha! git-subtree is a contrib script that apparently macports installs by default.