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I needed to split my git repo into two parts. I used the steps shown here: Detach (move) subdirectory into separate Git repository
The command I used was:
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter ABC HEAD -- --all
which seemed to work fine and left me with ABC as the root.
However now if if I try to checkout a tag that existed before I split the repo:
git checkout an-old-tagname
it's recreating the old directory structure - so recreating ABC as a subdirectory, along with XYZ1 and XYZ2.
I know that is how the repo really looked at that point in time - but I want the tag to refer to just the ABC bits, as if they'd been at the root back then. I thought that's what filter-branch was doing when it re-wrote history, but obviously I don't grok it properly.
How can I get the tags re-written so I can go back in time while still having ABC be the root of the repo?
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DESCRIPTION. Lets you rewrite Git revision history by rewriting the branches mentioned in the <rev-list options>, applying custom filters on each revision. Those filters can modify each tree (e.g. removing a file or running a perl rewrite on all files) or information about each commit.
Yes! The difference between a branch name and a tag name is that a branch name is expected to move, and git will move it automatically in that "on a branch" case.
Tags and branch are completely unrelated, since tags refer to a specific commit, and branch is a moving reference to the last commit of a history. Branches go, tags stay. So when you tag a commit, git doesn't care which commit or branch is checked out, if you provide him the SHA1 of what you want to tag.
We are required to delete/update branches or delete/update files etc. Similar to this, sometimes, we are required to update the tags in Git. Updating a tag will take your tag to another commit. For example, we can update the tag v1.
You need to specify
--tag-name-filter cat
to rewrite tags as well
Now, you could do
git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat...other filter options...-- --tags
where ...other filter options... repeats the filters you previously applied.
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