git-stitch-repo - Stitch several git repositories into a git fast-import stream
version 0.108
git-stitch-repo [ options ] repo1:dir1 repo2:dir2 ...
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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.
git fast-export --all --date-order
Typical usage is like this:
$ ls A B $ mkdir RESULT $ cd RESULT $ git init $ git-stitch-repo ../A ../B ../C:X ../R: | git fast-import
The RESULT repository will contain all commits from repositories ../A ../B ../C & ../R, with the paths of the files rewritten: the files from the ../A repository will be in subdirectory A/ of the new repository, the files from ../B in its subdirectory B/, the files from ../C in subdirectory X/, and the files from ../R in its root directory.
$ 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.
gitk --all
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.
Git::FastExport::Stitch
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 2008-2019 Philippe Bruhat (BooK), All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Git::FastExport, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Git::FastExport
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Git::FastExport
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.