I've tried various things without any good results.
Given there's not much history to preserve here, I'd go ahead and just
create a new repo with the current contents of the branch.
Any objections?

Le dim. 12 déc. 2021 à 15:43, Jeff Jensen <[email protected]>
a écrit :

> I've split git repos before and using filter-branch is the key to keep the
> desired and purge the rest.
>
> From my notes, these two posts helped me:
> *
>
> https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-git/splitting-a-subfolder-out-into-a-new-repository
> *
>
> https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/split-a-repository-in-two/
>
> These are my shortcut notes for doing so, hope they are clear enough for
> you and help. In a new repo, locally convert a current source subdirectory
> to the root directory and purge everything else; then push to remote and
> locally cleanup:
>
>    1.
>
>    Make directory for new repo from current repo:
>
> git clone current-repo to-new-directory
>
>    1.
>
>    Disconnect from current remote immediately to prevent catastrophe and
>    verify none set
>
> git remote rm origin
>
> git remote -v
>
>    1.
>
>    Keep desired dir and move it to top level, remove the rest
>    1.
>
>       FOLDER-NAME: which one to keep and move to top level
>       2.
>
>       BRANCH-NAME: which branch to do this on (must exist, e.g. master)
>
> git filter-branch --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter FOLDER-NAME
> BRANCH-NAME
>
>    1.
>
>    Setup remote repo and verify set
>
> git remote add origin https://githost.com/NEW-REPOSITORY-NAME.git
> <https://host-stuff.com/NEW-REPOSITORY-NAME.git>
>
> git remote -v
>
>    1.
>
>    Push to new repo
>
> git push -u origin BRANCH-NAME
>
>    1.
>
>    Further cleanup: delete all tags (locally only (Powershell))
>
> git tag | foreach-object -process { git tag -d $_ }
>
>    1.
>
>    Further cleanup: remove local unreachable/recyclable commits (remnants
>    of prior)
>
> git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=now --all
>
> git gc --prune=now
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 7:32 AM Hervé BOUTEMY <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > nice work done
> > I published the result to https://maven.apache.org/ref/caching-LATEST/
> >
> > now, on moving source to a separate Git repository, I did a basic test
> > pushing
> > to a new repository:
> > https://github.com/hboutemy/maven-build-cache-extension
> >
> > this leads to getting quite a lot of Maven history
> >
> > I'm not a Git wizard: is there a way to cut down the history to keep only
> > the
> > interesting part when the build cache code donation was done?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Hervé
> >
> > Le jeudi 9 décembre 2021, 10:39:10 CET Guillaume Nodet a écrit :
> > > Le jeu. 9 déc. 2021 à 09:52, Hervé BOUTEMY <[email protected]> a
> > écrit :
> > > > we have most plugins that are simple with only 1 mono-module build
> > > > This makes documentation easy in /plugins/maven-*-plugin/:
> > > > see https://maven.apache.org/components/plugins/ for full list
> > > >
> > > > we have a few components that have a plugin as part of a larger
> > > > multi-module
> > > > build, like surefire, jxr, archetype, scm, plugin-tools, enforcer,
> > > > release, and
> > > > soon wrapper
> > > >
> > > > And from experience, it makes documentation harder because there is
> > always
> > > > the
> > > > question of what to write in the plugin pages and what to write in
> > other
> > > > modules. Not talking of navigation from /plugins/maven-xxx-plugin to
> > /xxx/
> > > > maven-xxx-plugin (we have a trick for redirecting...)
> > > >
> > > > In caching case, I see that there is only one submodule, that is done
> > for
> > > > ITs
> > > > with Surefire: is it necessary? isn't maven-invoker-plugin usable,
> like
> > > > for
> > > > plugins?
> > >
> > > Yes, that's actually a good point.  I thought about that when I read
> > Tamás
> > > answer.  I'll double check if the integration tests can be merged into
> a
> > > single module.
> > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Hervé
> > > >
> > > > Le jeudi 9 décembre 2021, 09:01:13 CET Guillaume Nodet a écrit :
> > > > > I think the repository name should not contain 'extension', similar
> > to
> > > > > surefire which provides a plugin, but it a bit more complex
> > > > > The fact that it is provided as an extension is a technicality in
> > this
> > > >
> > > > case
> > > >
> > > > > imho.
> > > > > No big deal though...
> > > > >
> > > > > Le mar. 7 déc. 2021 à 09:53, Tamás Cservenák <[email protected]>
> a
> > > >
> > > > écrit :
> > > > > > Howdy,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd rather group ASF extensions (are there any existing ones
> aside
> > of
> > > > > > caching?),
> > > > > > to be clear... so GH repo could be something like
> > > > > > apache/maven-caching-extension
> > > > > > apache/maven-foobar-extension
> > > > > > etc?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > T
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 9:48 AM Guillaume Nodet <
> [email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > Following the recent work done to integrate the maven caching /
> > > > > >
> > > > > > incremental
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > build system into maven, I think it's now time to discuss where
> > we
> > > >
> > > > want
> > > >
> > > > > > its
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > long-term location to be.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This extension was donated a few months ago and provides local
> > and
> > > > > > > remote
> > > > > > > caching of maven project's output, based on computed hashes of
> > the
> > > > > >
> > > > > > inputs.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > It's defined as a maven extension and can be used as a core or
> > build
> > > > > > > extension.  This avoids building the project and speeds up
> > builds a
> > > >
> > > > lot
> > > >
> > > > > > > !
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The current status of this work resides in 3 branches:
> > > > > > >   * MNG-7129-3.8.x (PR at
> > https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/622)
> > > > > > >   * MNG-7129-master (PR at
> > https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/607)
> > > > > > >   *
> https://github.com/apache/maven/tree/MNG-7129-maven-caching
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The two first PRs include the required changes to integrate the
> > > > > > > extension
> > > > > > > in maven 3.8.x (or rather 3.9.x) and in master. The last branch
> > is
> > > >
> > > > the
> > > >
> > > > > > one
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > that should be moved to a separate repository and contain the
> > code
> > > >
> > > > for
> > > >
> > > > > > the
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > extension.  The goal is to agree on the location and the final
> > name
> > > >
> > > > for
> > > >
> > > > > > the
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > repository (it can't be changed easily).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I propose maven-caching as the repository / subproject name,
> but
> > any
> > > > > >
> > > > > > better
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > name is welcomed of course.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > ------------------------
> > > > > > > Guillaume Nodet
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