git-filter-repo filters not just the files, but also the commit history for those files, and creates a new repo with the files & history. We will use this to create the ce-styles repo to bring over relevant files & their history.
The list of files to keep is most important here; we'll want to take a close look at this list and make sure to get everything before going forward with it.
git-filter-repo
filters not just the files, but also the commit history for those files, and creates a new repo with the files & history. We will use this to create thece-styles
repo to bring over relevant files & their history.Phil suggested this in a thread a while back: https://openstax.slack.com/archives/C0LA54Q5C/p1642612936119700?thread_ts=1642610000.107200&cid=C0LA54Q5C
The list of files to keep is most important here; we'll want to take a close look at this list and make sure to get everything before going forward with it.
Phil's script: