Programming

Hopefully a super quick one (while I’m procrastinating from procrastinating). Debian Jessie is a lovely operating system until you try and do anything with it. Lots of Package deprecations etc etc etc. Anyway, I’ve got a history with GPU stuff and I’ve been playing with integrating it into some of my research, but in a bout of insanity I decided while I’m over in Liverpool (for another 4 hours) to wipe my old workstation and bring it over from Ubuntu 15.04 to Jessie (which I’ve been using on my main laptop for a while now). ...

Thesis submitted, Viva cleared (with minor corrections) but this post isn’t about all that… Simple one; how do you go from one monolithic project repository to multiple respositories without losing all that tasty tasty commit history? #! /bin/zsh # # git_split.sh Current_Repo username new_repo {list of files/folders you want to keep} # Copyright (C) 2016 bolster <[email protected]> # # Distributed under terms of the MIT license. # BASEDIR=$1 INITDIR=`pwd` NEWREPO="[email protected]:$2/$3.git" shift 3 FILTER_ARGS=$@ TMPDIR=`mktemp -d -t ${BASEDIR}_XXXXXXXXX` echo $BASEDIR $TMPDIR $FILTER_ARGS cp -ra $BASEDIR/. $TMPDIR cd $TMPDIR git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm --cached -qr --ignore-unmatch -- . && git reset -q \$GIT_COMMIT -- $FILTER_ARGS" --prune-empty -- --all && git repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250 && git remote set-url origin $NEWREPO && git gc && git push -u origin master ls -latrh cd $INITDIR rm -rf $TMPDIR YMMV, IANAGG, No refunds, Safety not guaranteed ...