Turn a GIT repo subfolder into a branch-CodePudding

Is it possible to turn subfolders of a GIT repository into its branches?

Going from one branch with folders

-main
  /Folder_A
  /Folder_B
  readme.md

To many branches

-main
  readme.md
-A
  /Folder_A
-B
  /Folder_B

The reason for this is an import from a TFVC repository to a GIT repository.

CodePudding user response：

Is it possible to turn subfolders of a GIT repository into its branches?

Of course, there is a simple command which will do it, it will convert the folder to a branch with all the history

git subtree split ...

Split the "main" into branches with git subtree split <path> -b <branch> and then add you can push the branch to the remote.

# split the "main repo"
git subtree split -P path -b <branch1>

CodePudding user response：

Will the branches remain separate from now on? If they will remain separate, fell free to create two new branches from main, say A and B. Then, in main, delete the 2 folders, and in each of the separate branches do the necessary adjustments... say, in A

git checkout A
git rm readme.md
git rm Folder_B
git commit -m "Removing unnecessary stuff from this project"

This should be good enough. This way you get to keep the history of the common development up to this point in all 3 branches. If you don't want that and you would rather have them separate from the beginning as separate projects, then you should consider using git filter-repo https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo