Cap Petschulat schrieb: > I'd like to spin a subdirectory of an existing git repo off in to its > own repo while preserving history. From what I've read, I should be > able to do this with a fresh clone followed by git filter-branch > --subdirectory-filter MYSUBDIR, assuming I don't care about other > branches or tags. This runs, and when it's done, I have a repo that > contains the subdir's contents as its root. So far so good. > > I would expect to see the subdir's full history when I run git log, > but instead it cuts off prematurely, showing the first commit to be > some relatively recent minor change I'll call FOO. In gitk, I can see > that history prior to FOO is still around, but FOO has no parents, and > the commit before FOO has no children. In the original repo, FOO's > parent was the merge of a branch which no longer exists, if this > matters. A bug in this area was fixed in git v1.6.0-rc3. Which version are you using? -- Hannes -- 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
