As noted in several forums, a recommended way to move trees between repositories is to use git-filter-branch to revise the history for a single tree (http://gbayer.com/development/moving-files-from-one-git-repository-to-anot her-preserving-history/, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365541/how-to-move-files-from-one-git-r epo-to-another-not-a-clone-preserving-history). However, this can lead to argument list too long errors when the original repository has many retained branches (>6k) /usr/local/git/libexec/git-core/git-filter-branch: line 270: /usr/local/git/libexec/git-core/git: Argument list too long Could not get the commits Piping the output from git rev-parse directly into git rev-list avoids this problem, since the rev-parse output is not processed as a command line argument. --- git-filter-branch.sh | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh index ac2a005..d7e0fae 100755 --- a/git-filter-branch.sh +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh @@ -255,8 +255,6 @@ else remap_to_ancestor=t fi -rev_args=$(git rev-parse --revs-only "$@") - case "$filter_subdir" in "") eval set -- "$(git rev-parse --sq --no-revs "$@")" @@ -267,8 +265,9 @@ case "$filter_subdir" in ;; esac +git rev-parse --revs-only "$@" | \ git rev-list --reverse --topo-order --default HEAD \ - --parents --simplify-merges $rev_args "$@" > ../revs || + --parents --simplify-merges --stdin "$@" > ../revs || die "Could not get the commits" commits=$(wc -l <../revs | tr -d " ") -- 1.8.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html