Re: git alias quoting help

[shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>]

I think I finally figured out how I want to do this:

git remote add temp ../<temp repo>/
git fetch temp
git merge -s ours --no-commit temp/master
git read-tree --prefix=<wanted directory> -u temp/master:<wanted directory>
git commit -m "foo"

However, when I do this, I've got all of the commits from the original
(temp) repo. How do I prune these out? None of the files show up, but
I do see reference to them in: git log --stat. And nothing I do with
gc or prune seem to have any affect.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:10 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I (finally) found two projects that like they'll do what I want:
> git-splits and git_filter
> The later was lacking in documentation and after the build I couldn't
> figure it out at a glance and I think git-splits will DWIW.
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:27 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BTW, just trying to get filter-branch to interpret the bash script
>> string correctly now and it still isn't working:
>>
>> git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --index-filter "\
>>   git ls-files -s | \
>>   sed \"s-\\t\\\"*-&${1}-\" | \
>>   GIT_INDEX_FILE=\$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \
>>   git update-index --index-info && \
>>     mv \$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \$GIT_INDEX_FILE \
>> " HEAD
>>
>>  I'm guessing bash is grabbing my actual bash shell is grabbing the
>> GIT_INDEX_FILE declaration for itself. If this is the case, I'm not
>> sure how to stop it - tried var\=\$var.new and that passes the '\='
>> which totally messes things up.
>>
>> Rewrite ef54b77e59c7f4e18f00168ba88a8d2fee795802 (1/76)mv: cannot stat
>> `/<repo path>/.git-rewrite/t/../index.new': No such file or directory
>> index filter failed:   git ls-files -s |   sed
>> "s-\t\"*-&cookbooks/adjoin/-" |   GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new
>> git update-index --index-info &&     mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new
>> $GIT_INDEX_FILE
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:13 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've also tried to make this a plain bash script (w/o the function or
>>> if statements and am failing at the same place). The issue seems to be
>>> with the quoting in the filter-branch | ls-files bit. Also, the end
>>> goal here is to be able to move a directory from one repo and keep the
>>> history. While this works if I do it at the command line, it's just
>>> too many steps (is tedious). Also, if there's a way to do the same
>>> thing with multiple directories in one shot, (or make this work with
>>> something like: cookbooks/{a,b,c} # as a parameter) that'd be perfect.
>>>
>>>   reapdir = "!f() { \
>>>     if [ -d "$1" ] ; then \
>>>       git filter-branch --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter "$1" -- --all && \
>>>       git gc --aggressive && \
>>>       git prune && \
>>>       git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --index-filter '\
>>>         git ls-files -s \
>>>           | sed \"s-\\t-&$1-\" \
>>>           | GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new git update-index
>>> --index-info && \
>>>             mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE'; \
>>>     else \
>>>       echo "No directory $1"; \
>>>     fi; }; \
>>>   f"