Feature #9175

Create a Git repo with only the history and content of /blueprint

Added by sajolida 2015-04-07 17:18:14 . Updated 2015-06-10 16:25:11 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Infrastructure
Target version:
Start date:
2015-04-07
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Sysadmin
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Description

This involves creating a new Git repo that:

1. Only contains the blueprint directorie’s content.
2. Inherits the current Git repo’s history for that content, and nothing else.

git-filter-branch(1) should be a good start.

To rewrite the repository to look as if foodir/ had been its project root, and discard all other history:

git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter foodir -- --all

Subtasks

Related issues

Blocks Tails - Feature #9181: Deploy blueprints.tails.boum.org Confirmed 2015-04-07
Blocks Tails - Feature #9179: Propose an ikiwiki configuration for blueprints.tails.boum.org Confirmed 2015-04-07

History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2015-04-07 17:29:57

  • Subject changed from Rewrite the history of our main repo to keep only /blueprint to Create a Git repo with only the history and content of /blueprint

#2 Updated by sajolida 2015-04-07 17:30:59

#3 Updated by sajolida 2015-04-07 17:34:22

  • blocks Feature #9179: Propose an ikiwiki configuration for blueprints.tails.boum.org added

#4 Updated by sajolida 2015-05-04 03:15:30

  • Target version deleted (Tails_1.4)

#5 Updated by sajolida 2015-06-08 15:01:33

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved
  • Assignee deleted (sajolida)

I managed to do that with the following set of commands (could probably be refined):

 
git remote | while read remote ; do git remote rm $remote ; done
git branch | grep -v "\smaster" | while read branch ; do git branch -D $branch ; done
git tag | while read tag ; do git tag -d $tag ; done
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter wiki/src/blueprint -- --all
git update-ref -d refs/original/refs/heads/master
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --aggressive --prune=now

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2015-06-10 16:25:11

  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Tested, works here too. We’re losing history before mid-2013 (since blueprints were elsewhere previously), but I think that’s fine. Yay!