I had the same question as asked here: New git repository in root directory to subsume an exist repository in a sub-directory
I followed this answer here: New git repository in root directory to subsume an exist repository in a sub-directory
Now, gitk --all shows two histories: one culminating in the current master, and one named original/refs/heads/master.
I don’t know what this second history is, or how to remove it from the repo. I don’t need two histories in my repository.
How do I get rid of it?
To reproduce yourself:
mkdir -p project-root/path/to/module
cd project-root/path/to/module
mkdir dir1 dir2 dir3
for dir in * ; do touch $dir/source-file-$dir.py ; done
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'Initial commit'
Now we have the original poster’s problem. Let’s move the root of the git repo to project-root using the answer linked above:
git filter-branch --tree-filter 'mkdir -p path/to/module ; git mv dir1 dir2 dir3 path/to/module' HEAD
rm -rf path
cd ../../../ # Now PWD is project-root
mv path/to/module/.git .
git reset --hard
Now, see my current problem:
gitk --all &
git show-ref
How do I get rid of refs/original/heads/master and all associated history?
