Reformatting Your Codebase with git filter-branch

Posted on September 3, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

Reformatting Your Codebase with git filter-branch Git has tonnes of great tools that can be very powerful, filter-branch is another example of this. It can be used for lots of things we won’t explore here — rather we will use it for a very specific use — filtering through the tree.

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Extract branch to a new repo using git-format-patch

Posted on September 15, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

I know this should probably be done using git-filter-branch, but with format-patch, I don’t need to learn anything new. More importantly, filter-branch would give me more to forget 🙁 Given a git repo with a branch ‘find-ls’ with history like this: * 10c757c (origin/master, master) handle errors better | * 073892b (HEAD, find-ls) don’t allow […]

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