Remove filtered paths from original repo about git-filter-repo HOT 5 CLOSED

Yeah, making people go through repeated history rewrites sounds very problematic, and it is also a bad idea to just push a rewrite without informing other people using the repo. It's a big flag day event kind of thing. Your new plan sounds like a better idea, but you'll still need to be careful to coordinate with folks so that they don't keep adding to directories that you have extracted in the mean time or you'll risk losing those changes when you do the final cutover.

Yes, coordination is painful and history rewrites requiring them can thus be very painful. But the need behind such coordination was totally part of the design goals behind git; they wanted to prevent situations where someone just broke into the server and modified history and no one was any the wiser when folks tried to download updates. The reason they designed for such a scenario was that someone tried this exact thing with the linux kernel before git was invented -- and the perpetrator would have succeeded had the kernel been using cvs or svn, but the problem was noticed due to some integrity checks that bitkeeper performed.

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Have you read https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/blob/docs/html/git-filter-repo.html#DISCUSSION, particular the parts about "recovering from upstream rebase" and item 4?

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I'll go ahead and close this, assuming the links above answered the question. Let me know if you have further questions about this, though.

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Oops, apologies, didn't see the earlier reply!

I shall review 🙂

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Have you read https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/blob/docs/html/git-filter-repo.html#DISCUSSION, particular the parts about "recovering from upstream rebase" and item 4?

Right, given that a reply, and i am concluding that what i am considering is quite a bad idea? 😉

The use case I am trying to cater for here is (re)moving sections of my target repo in to other ones a piece at a time over a period of weeks.. so what i'll probably do is just script what i want to move to new repos, run that over a few days, and then when done invert all the commands on the original repo and push somewhere new.

Ty.

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