我们的Git存储库最初是一个大型SVN存储库的一部分,其中每个项目都有自己的树,如下所示:

project1/branches
        /tags
        /trunk
project2/branches
        /tags
        /trunk

显然,使用svn mv将文件从一个文件移动到另一个文件非常容易。但是在Git中,每个项目都在它自己的存储库中,今天我被要求将一个子目录从project2移动到project1。我是这样做的:

$ git clone project2 
$ cd project2
$ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter deeply/buried/java/source/directory/A -- --all
$ git remote rm origin  # so I don't accidentally overwrite the repo ;-)
$ mkdir -p deeply/buried/different/java/source/directory/B
$ for f in *.java; do 
>  git mv $f deeply/buried/different/java/source/directory/B
>  done
$ git commit -m "moved files to new subdirectory"
$ cd ..
$
$ git clone project1
$ cd project1
$ git remote add p2 ../project2
$ git fetch p2
$ git branch p2 remotes/p2/master
$ git merge p2 # --allow-unrelated-histories for git 2.9+
$ git remote rm p2
$ git push

但这似乎相当复杂。有没有更好的方法来做这类事情呢?还是我采取了正确的方法?

注意,这涉及到将历史合并到现有的存储库中,而不是简单地从另一个存储库的一部分创建一个新的独立存储库(如前面的问题中所述)。


当前回答

对于类似的问题(尽管只针对特定存储库中的某些文件),这个脚本被证明是非常有用的:git-import

简短的版本是,它从现有的存储库中创建给定文件或目录($object)的补丁文件:

cd old_repo
git format-patch --thread -o "$temp" --root -- "$object"

然后应用到一个新的存储库:

cd new_repo
git am "$temp"/*.patch 

详情请查阅:

文档化的来源 git format-patch git是

下面的bash函数可以使用这种有用的方法。下面是一个用法示例:

gitcp <Repo1_basedir> <path_inside_repo1> <Repo2_basedir> . gitcp <Repo1_basedir> <path_inside_repo1>

gitcp ()
{
    fromdir="$1";
    frompath="$2";
    to="$3";
    echo "Moving git files from "$fromdir" at "$frompath" to "$to" ..";
    tmpdir=/tmp/gittmp;
    cd "$fromdir";
    git format-patch --thread -o $tmpdir --root -- "$frompath";
    cd "$to";
    git am $tmpdir/*.patch
}

其他回答

我发现Ross Hendrickson的博客很有用。这是一种非常简单的方法,您可以创建应用于新回购的补丁。更多细节请参见链接页面。

它只包含三个步骤(复制自博客):

# Setup a directory to hold the patches
mkdir <patch-directory>

# Create the patches
git format-patch -o <patch-directory> --root /path/to/copy

# Apply the patches in the new repo using a 3 way merge in case of conflicts
# (merges from the other repo are not turned into patches). 
# The 3way can be omitted.
git am --3way <patch-directory>/*.patch

唯一的问题是我不能一次性应用所有补丁

git am --3way <patch-directory>/*.patch

在Windows下,我得到了一个InvalidArgument错误。所以我不得不一个接一个地打补丁。

如果你的历史记录是正常的,你可以将提交作为补丁取出,并将它们应用到新的存储库中:

cd repository
git log --pretty=email --patch-with-stat --reverse --full-index --binary -m --first-parent -- path/to/file_or_folder > patch
cd ../another_repository
git am --committer-date-is-author-date < ../repository/patch 

或者在一行里

git log --pretty=email --patch-with-stat --reverse --full-index --binary -m --first-parent -- path/to/file_or_folder | (cd /path/to/new_repository && git am --committer-date-is-author-date)

提示:如果源项目子目录中的提交应该被提取到一个新的存储库根目录,git am可以被赋予-p2这样的参数来从补丁中删除额外的目录。

(摘自Exherbo的文件)

我想要一些健壮和可重用的东西(一个命令行+撤销函数),所以我写了下面的bash脚本。我用过几次,所以我想在这里分享一下。

它能够将任意文件夹/路径/to/foo从repo1移动到/some/other/folder/bar到repo2(文件夹路径可以相同或不同,与根文件夹的距离可能不同)。

由于它只遍历输入文件夹中涉及文件的提交(而不是源回购的所有提交),即使在大的源回购上,如果你只是提取一个在每次提交中都没有触及的嵌套很深的子文件夹,它也应该相当快。

因为这样做是创建一个带有所有旧的回购历史的孤立分支,然后将其合并到HEAD,它甚至可以在文件名冲突的情况下工作(当然,然后您必须在最后解决合并)。

如果没有文件名冲突,您只需要在最后提交git来完成合并。

缺点是它可能不会遵循文件重命名(REWRITE_FROM文件夹之外)在源repo - pull请求欢迎GitHub来适应这一点。

GitHub链接:git-move-folder-between- restore -keep-history

#!/bin/bash

# Copy a folder from one git repo to another git repo,
# preserving full history of the folder.

SRC_GIT_REPO='/d/git-experimental/your-old-webapp'
DST_GIT_REPO='/d/git-experimental/your-new-webapp'
SRC_BRANCH_NAME='master'
DST_BRANCH_NAME='import-stuff-from-old-webapp'
# Most likely you want the REWRITE_FROM and REWRITE_TO to have a trailing slash!
REWRITE_FROM='app/src/main/static/'
REWRITE_TO='app/src/main/static/'

verifyPreconditions() {
    #echo 'Checking if SRC_GIT_REPO is a git repo...' &&
      { test -d "${SRC_GIT_REPO}/.git" || { echo "Fatal: SRC_GIT_REPO is not a git repo"; exit; } } &&
    #echo 'Checking if DST_GIT_REPO is a git repo...' &&
      { test -d "${DST_GIT_REPO}/.git" || { echo "Fatal: DST_GIT_REPO is not a git repo"; exit; } } &&
    #echo 'Checking if REWRITE_FROM is not empty...' &&
      { test -n "${REWRITE_FROM}" || { echo "Fatal: REWRITE_FROM is empty"; exit; } } &&
    #echo 'Checking if REWRITE_TO is not empty...' &&
      { test -n "${REWRITE_TO}" || { echo "Fatal: REWRITE_TO is empty"; exit; } } &&
    #echo 'Checking if REWRITE_FROM folder exists in SRC_GIT_REPO' &&
      { test -d "${SRC_GIT_REPO}/${REWRITE_FROM}" || { echo "Fatal: REWRITE_FROM does not exist inside SRC_GIT_REPO"; exit; } } &&
    #echo 'Checking if SRC_GIT_REPO has a branch SRC_BRANCH_NAME' &&
      { cd "${SRC_GIT_REPO}"; git rev-parse --verify "${SRC_BRANCH_NAME}" || { echo "Fatal: SRC_BRANCH_NAME does not exist inside SRC_GIT_REPO"; exit; } } &&
    #echo 'Checking if DST_GIT_REPO has a branch DST_BRANCH_NAME' &&
      { cd "${DST_GIT_REPO}"; git rev-parse --verify "${DST_BRANCH_NAME}" || { echo "Fatal: DST_BRANCH_NAME does not exist inside DST_GIT_REPO"; exit; } } &&
    echo '[OK] All preconditions met'
}

# Import folder from one git repo to another git repo, including full history.
#
# Internally, it rewrites the history of the src repo (by creating
# a temporary orphaned branch; isolating all the files from REWRITE_FROM path
# to the root of the repo, commit by commit; and rewriting them again
# to the original path).
#
# Then it creates another temporary branch in the dest repo,
# fetches the commits from the rewritten src repo, and does a merge.
#
# Before any work is done, all the preconditions are verified: all folders
# and branches must exist (except REWRITE_TO folder in dest repo, which
# can exist, but does not have to).
#
# The code should work reasonably on repos with reasonable git history.
# I did not test pathological cases, like folder being created, deleted,
# created again etc. but probably it will work fine in that case too.
#
# In case you realize something went wrong, you should be able to reverse
# the changes by calling `undoImportFolderFromAnotherGitRepo` function.
# However, to be safe, please back up your repos just in case, before running
# the script. `git filter-branch` is a powerful but dangerous command.
importFolderFromAnotherGitRepo(){
    SED_COMMAND='s-\t\"*-\t'${REWRITE_TO}'-'

    verifyPreconditions &&
    cd "${SRC_GIT_REPO}" &&
      echo "Current working directory: ${SRC_GIT_REPO}" &&
      git checkout "${SRC_BRANCH_NAME}" &&
      echo 'Backing up current branch as FILTER_BRANCH_BACKUP' &&
      git branch -f FILTER_BRANCH_BACKUP &&
      SRC_BRANCH_NAME_EXPORTED="${SRC_BRANCH_NAME}-exported" &&
      echo "Creating temporary branch '${SRC_BRANCH_NAME_EXPORTED}'..." &&
      git checkout -b "${SRC_BRANCH_NAME_EXPORTED}" &&
      echo 'Rewriting history, step 1/2...' &&
      git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter ${REWRITE_FROM} &&
      echo 'Rewriting history, step 2/2...' &&
      git filter-branch -f --index-filter \
       "git ls-files -s | sed \"$SED_COMMAND\" |
        GIT_INDEX_FILE=\$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new git update-index --index-info &&
        mv \$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \$GIT_INDEX_FILE" HEAD &&
    cd - &&
    cd "${DST_GIT_REPO}" &&
      echo "Current working directory: ${DST_GIT_REPO}" &&
      echo "Adding git remote pointing to SRC_GIT_REPO..." &&
      git remote add old-repo ${SRC_GIT_REPO} &&
      echo "Fetching from SRC_GIT_REPO..." &&
      git fetch old-repo "${SRC_BRANCH_NAME_EXPORTED}" &&
      echo "Checking out DST_BRANCH_NAME..." &&
      git checkout "${DST_BRANCH_NAME}" &&
      echo "Merging SRC_GIT_REPO/" &&
      git merge "old-repo/${SRC_BRANCH_NAME}-exported" --no-commit &&
    cd -
}

# If something didn't work as you'd expect, you can undo, tune the params, and try again
undoImportFolderFromAnotherGitRepo(){
  cd "${SRC_GIT_REPO}" &&
    SRC_BRANCH_NAME_EXPORTED="${SRC_BRANCH_NAME}-exported" &&
    git checkout "${SRC_BRANCH_NAME}" &&
    git branch -D "${SRC_BRANCH_NAME_EXPORTED}" &&
  cd - &&
  cd "${DST_GIT_REPO}" &&
    git remote rm old-repo &&
    git merge --abort
  cd -
}

importFolderFromAnotherGitRepo
#undoImportFolderFromAnotherGitRepo

Git子树直观地工作,甚至保存历史。

使用示例: 将git repo添加为子目录:

git subtree add --prefix foo https://github.com/git/git.git master

解释:

#├── repo_bar
#│   ├── bar.txt
#└── repo_foo
#    └── foo.txt

cd repo_bar
git subtree add --prefix foo ../repo_foo master

#├── repo_bar
#│   ├── bar.txt
#│   └── foo
#│       └── foo.txt
#└── repo_foo
#    └── foo.txt

如果有关文件的路径在两个repo中是相同的,并且您希望只带来一个文件或一小组相关文件,一个简单的方法是使用git进行选择。

第一步是使用git fetch <remote-url>将从另一个repo提交到您自己的本地repo。这将使FETCH_HEAD指向从另一个repo提交的头;如果你想在你完成了其他的取回之后保留对该提交的引用,你可以使用git tag other-head FETCH_HEAD来标记它。

You will then need to create an initial commit for that file (if it doesn't exist) or a commit to bring the file to a state that can be patched with the first commit from the other repo you want to bring in. You may be able to do this with a git cherry-pick <commit-0> if commit-0 introduced the files you want, or you may need to construct the commit 'by hand'. Add -n to the cherry-pick options if you need to modify the initial commit to, e.g., drop files from that commit you don't want to bring in.

在此之后,您可以继续精选后续提交,在必要时再次使用-n。在最简单的情况下(所有提交都是你想要的,并且干净地应用),你可以在cherry-pick命令行上给出完整的提交列表:git cherry-pick <commit-1> <commit-2> <commit-3> ....