Git repository slicer

The git-slice script provides a convenient way to push changes from specific files or directories in a Git repository to corresponding remote repositories using Git subtrees in a manageable chunks.

Requirements

• bash : GNU Project implementation of the standard Unix shell version 4 and later.
• git : Git distributed version control system.

optional

Required only if you want to create a remote repositories for each git subtree.

• gh : GitHub CLI.
• curl : Command-line tool for transferring data using various network protocols.
• awk : Data-driven programming language.

Usage

./gitslice.sh {paths...}

Options

• {paths} : Specify one or more files or directories to exort them as git branch or git repositories at github.com.

Environment variables

• ACCESS_TOKEN : Access token with repo permissions required if ENABLE_SUBTREE_PUSH enabled.
• ENABLE_SUBTREE_PUSH : A non-empty value to enable export git subtree as git repository at github.com.

Notes

• If a file or directory is not found, a warning is displayed and the script will continue without pushing changes for that item.
• Git subtrees use branch names with a prefix of ___, so if you have branches with names starting with that prefix, the script may not function as expected.
• If there are conflicts when pushing changes to a remote repository, the script will create a pull request on GitHub.
• The script will exit with an error if any command fails (set -euo pipefail).

Authors

• This fork was created and maintained by Muhammad Amin Boubaker : @CodeIter.

Credit

The original idea come from minetest-game/repo_slicer by Buckaroo Banzai : @BuckarooBanzay.

License

This script is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.