NAME
git-stitch-repo - Stitch several git repositories into a git-fast-import stream
SYNOPSIS
git-stitch-repo [ options ] repo1 repo2:dir2 ...
OPTIONS
--select < first | last | random >
Algorithm for selection the attachment commit
--help Print a short online help and exit
--manual Print the full manual page and exit
--version Print version information and exitDESCRIPTION
git-stitch-repo will process the output of git-fast-export --all --date-order on the git repositories given on the command-line, and create a stream suitable for git-fast-import that will create a new repository containing all the commits in a new commit tree that respects the history of all the source repositories.
Typical usage is like this:
$ ls
A B
$ mkdir RESULT
$ cd RESULT
$ git-init
$ git-stitch-repo ../A:A ../B:B | git-fast-importThe RESULT repository will contain all commits from repositories A and B, with the files from A in subdirectory A/ and the files from B in subdirectory B/.
$ git checkout master-A
warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born.
warning: Forcing checkout of master-A.
Switched to branch "master-A"
$ git checkout master-B
Switched to branch "master-B"Both branches can be seen using gitk --all. It is now possible to create the master branch and have it point at the right commit, and delete the two master-A and master-B branches.
git-stich-repo works perfectly with repositories that have a linear history (no merges). It has successfully been tested with 16 linear repositories, and produced the expected result.
The improvements to the stitching algorithm added in version 0.06 should make is suitable to work with repositories having branches and merges.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Philippe Bruhat (BooK), <book@cpan.org>.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The original version of this script was created as part of my work for BOOKING.COM, which authorized its publication/distribution under the same terms as Perl itself.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2008-2009 Philippe Bruhat (BooK), All Rights Reserved.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.