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Thu, 04 February 2021 15:21

mirek
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..correctly, with the history.

This is based on https://docs.github.com/en/github/using-git/splitting-a-subf older-out-into-a-new-repository

I will demonstrate this on moving bazaar/plugin/gdal.

First, clone U++ into some temporary working folder:

git clone https://github.com/ultimatepp/ultimatepp.git
cd ultimatepp

Remove all unwanted history and files:

git filter-branch --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter bazaar/plugin/gdal master

This will put content of bazaar/plugin/gdal to ., so we need to move it where it belongs:

mkdir plugin
mkdir plugin/gdal
git mv -k * plugin/gdal
git commit -m "Reorganized for UppHub"

Now it is time to create a new repo in github, in this case I have created https://github.com/mirek-fidler/gdal. The git remote path is https://github.com/mirek-fidler/gdal.git

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/mirek-fidler/gdal.git

And push it to the new repo:

git push -u -f origin master

The last step is to announce a new shiny UppHub module here, UppHub maintainers will pick up from that...

[Updated on: Thu, 04 February 2021 15:22]