[libvirt] RFC: Splitting python binding out into a separate repo & ading to PyPi

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Aug 30 08:26:53 UTC 2013


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:18:19AM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 03:27:42PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On the other hand moving to a separate repo would likely lose our git history
> > (not sure if we can keep it, i doubt) which would be a bummer IMHO.
> 
> You can use git filter-branch to extract the python bindings (assuming it's self
> contained in the python/ directory) while keeping history:
> 
> « To rewrite the repository to look as if foodir/ had been its project root,
> and discard all other history:
> 
> 
>     git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter foodir -- --all
> »
> (this example comes from git filter-branch manpage)

  Okay, good to know :-)
i would still slightly prefer to keep them in tree for the other
reasons, but that would less be an issue if we move to a separate repo.

  thanks !

Daniel



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