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Feature request #1502: Extract "dialog" project from "snippets" repo

Kind feature request
Product no product
When Created , updated
Status open
Reporter Greg Hurrell
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Description

The overhead of setting up a Git repository is so low that I may as well extract this into a separate project.

Not sure how to do this while maintaining history. Perhaps look into git subtree. Or failing that clone and git filter-branch.

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  1. Greg Hurrell

    From the git-filter-branch manpage:

    To rewrite the repository to look as if foodir/ had been its project root, and discard all other history:

    git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter foodir -- --all

Thus you can, e.g., turn a library subdirectory into a repository of its own. Note the -- that separates
filter-branch options from revision options, and the --all to rewrite all branches and tags.
  2. Greg Hurrell

    Ok, done.

    mkdir dialog
cd dialog
git clone ~/trabajo/unversioned/snippets src
cd src
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter dialog -- --all

# to definitively remove the "original" refs this is not enough
rm -r .git/refs/original

# had to actually delete the corresponding lines from here too:
vim .git/packed-refs

# then repack:
git repack -a
  3. Greg Hurrell

    Bumping this ticket. The code is sitting around in ~/work/lion/dialog; all I need to do is upload it.

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