Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Merging vim-latex/master:vimfiles into local repo

[Gerd W. <ger...@ma...>]

>> The only potential issue I see is that after the splitting of the
>> repository, they will have different commit ids than the original
>> repository had. Since the repository is not published that long, I tend
>> to think that this is not important.
>
> That probably won't be much of an issue... Aside from the fact that it
> will create a new head when anyone pulls down the new repo (hopefully
> that wouldn't confuse any automated package managers, like Arch Linux's
> yaourt (there is already a vim-latex-git on AUR)).
>
> Alternatively, you could keep the htdocs in the history. Clone the
> current repo into two, and then (within each clone) move the files to
> their desired locations and commit the changes. Of course, you probably
> don't need to maintain the changelog within the new "vim-latex-htdocs"
> repo, and so that one could be split out regardless.

I think, one could separate both repos with "git filter-branch". For the 
vimfiles a "--subdirectory-filter vimfiles/" will work and for the 
remaining part one has to use '--tree-filter "rm -rf vimfiles"'. This 
split the repo into two and preserves all commit/log entries. Both repos 
do not know the history of the other one - thus there is no "history 
overhead".

Regards
Gerd