git-slice

This utility can be used to take out foler from a git repository, fork it into a new git repository and eventually provide commands to sync changes between both the repositories.

Commands

git-slice init

Optiions

Option	Input	Required	Allow Multiple
--repo	Relative path of the git repository to be sliced	YES	NO
--branch	Name of the repository branch to be sliced	YES	NO
--folder	Path of the folder from the repository root	YES	YES

$ git-slice init frontent-public --repo ./../main-repo --folder src/frontend/public --folder src/frontend/Components/Login --branch develop

This command creates a new folder in the current directory and initiates a new git repository in it. It this case it will copy all the content from main-repo/src/frontend/public and main-repo/src/frontend/Components/Login, and places it in frontend-public/src/frontend/public and frontend-public/src/frontend/Components/Login respectively. In addition, this command also creates a config file frontend-public/git-slice.json to store configuration details.

git-slice pull

$ cd frontend-public
$ git-slice pull

If main-repo/src/frontend/public is updated, this command can be used to sync the updates into frontend-public/src/frontend/public.

git-slice push

$ cd frontend-public
$ git-slice push --branch updated-photos -message "changed public photos"

Optiions

Option	Input	Required
--branch	Name of the branch to be created in the main git repository while pushing	YES
--message	Commit mesasge used to commit changes in the main git reposirory	YES

If frontend-public/src/frontend/public is updated, this command can be used to create a new branch named updated-photos in main-repo and sync the changes made in frontend-public/src/frontend/public to that branch. Later, a pull request can be created to merge these changes with the master branch.