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Splitting one Git repository into many - branches become forks

Answer 1

+2 A:

If you really want to do this, clone the repo, and delete the extraneous branches in each.

But the current situation seems just fine. Are you sure you'll never want to cherry-pick patches from one repo to another?

wnoise 2010-10-22 11:02:21

Pretty sure - we would always be going through what is now trunk

spmason 2010-10-22 12:47:57

@Steve: I don't think you exactly answered wnoise there. If all work is always going through what you've labeled trunk, then you definitely want at least one repo where these branches all exist, so you can do things like merging common work from trunk into all clients. By all means, create separate clones to work in for each, but there's no reason that each client shouldn't at least be aware of the "trunk", and no reason the trunk shouldn't be aware of all clients. But wnoise is right: all you're asking how to do is clone, and delete a few branches.

Jefromi 2010-10-22 13:10:54

But I need the branches I've made to be the master/trunk of the new repositories.. I guess that's just a merge and delete the original branch though?

spmason 2010-10-22 14:23:18

`master` is not synonymous with `trunk`. There is nothing special about `master` except that it is the default branch in a new clone. If you want a different `master`, delete the current and create a new one. If you want multiple `master`-type branches, create `client1-master`, `client2-master`, ...

Jonathan 2010-10-22 14:33:42

spmason 2010-10-22 15:43:39

@spmason: you don't need to merge, even. Just delete all branches but the one you want to keep, and then `git branch -M oldname master`. But I really, truly, see no need to split these into separate repositories. You really should want to have each of the clients interacting with the trunk.

wnoise 2010-10-22 19:16:14

Answer 2

+1 A:

You can use svn2git to clone the branches into their own repos, something like

svn2git svn://project/branches/client1 --rootistrunk

for each branch that you want to make into a forked repo, and then

svn2git svn://project/trunk --rootistrunk

for the trunk.

I did something similar for a very large svn->git conversion.

ebneter 2010-10-23 01:08:59

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