Question

I have multiple projects that I’d like to put up onto GitHub.com. All of these projects are in my local Git repository. I have just one repository, but for each project, I’d like to have 1 GitHub project. That way, bugs can be organized by the project.

How can I set this up so that it isn’t that difficult to manage? Do I need to redo my repository layout and create new git repositories locally for each project? That would be really time involved and I might be losing the Git history.

Walter

Answer 1

Depending on how your repo is organized, you can use git filter-branch to create a new repo for each project, retaining history for each individual project only.

Assuming your current repo structure is like this:

repo/
  project1/
    project1-file
  project2/
    project2-file
  project3/
    project3-file

You can first clone your repo (git filter-branch will remove files and their history, so clone your original repo first). Then, in your cloned repo, you can use git filter-branch to create a new repo (with all the old history) at the root of project1:

$ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter project1 HEAD

Now, your repo will look like the following:

repo/
  project1-file

And it will still contain the history for all files that were stored under project1/ in the old repo.

Repeat that step for each project, and you will now have three independent repos, with all the history for their relevant projects.