[Discuss] GIT question

[greg at freephile.com (Greg Rundlett (freephile))]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:

> > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> > bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
> >
> > I currently have a bare git repository as well as a populated git
> > repository. What I would like to do is to create a partial repository
> > that contains a subset.
> > In the main repo, I have a.c, b.c, c.c, d.c. e.c
> > But I just want to create another repo containing only a.c, b.c and c.c
> > for development purposes.
>

Jerry,

It sound like you just want to make a branch, not a whole different
repository.

With a branch you can easily merge changes to b.c among the different
branches, and you can easily switch branches to try out the code that
doesn't have d.c

> ---------
> > Another solution is to split the master repo into the stuff that is
> > under development, and the stuff that is unrelated from a project
> > standpoint so it is probably better to create a second master bare repo,
> > then remove the objects that do not apply to the project in one, and
> > remove the project objects in the other.
>

Again it sounds like a branch strategy might help.

git branch -a
* master [1]
kitchen_sink [2]


[1] code that does stuff.  The asterisk indicates it's the branch you're on
in your working tree
[2] master plus miscellaneous stuff that isn't actually part of the
product/project