On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Andreas Jaeger <a...@suse.com> wrote: > On 05/02/2016 03:05 PM, Steven Dake (stdake) wrote: >> Swapnil, >> >> I gather this is what people want but this cannot be done with git and >> maintain history. To do this, we would have to "cp oldrepo/files to >> newrepo/files" and the git history would be lost. That is why choosing >> two repositories up front is irreversible. > > > On the other hand: If you start with one and want to split later, you can > use git-filter to create a copy of the repo with just the kubernetes files > in it and set up a new repository with that content. So, you would keep the > history...
Andreas, could you also not do the reverse with two separate repositories and merge them to preserve the history using subtree merging [1]? If I'm not correct, I'm sure repository merging can be done somehow as Linus merged gitk into git years ago with history preservation. So really, I don't think git history should be part of this discussion. [1] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
