I have a project which uses a few self made "modules". I want to put these modules in separate (read only) repositories. I tried to do this with the subtree split command. But I don't see my new branched repository anywhere.
I first ran this command:
git subtree split --prefix=src/Modules/Infra --branch=infra --annotate='Infra folder split' --rejoin master
Then with the Github GUI client (I'm on Windows) I synced the changes that where pending.
But I don't see any difference. Shouldn't there be a new Repository in my Github account named infra? That's what I'm trying to accomplish with this... Is there anything else I have to do to get this to work?
Running only that command will not create a new project in Github, it will only create a separate tree of commits in which your --prefix directory is the root instead of a subdirectory.
Running that command will output a hash that is the last commit of the new split tree. That is the commit that can be pushed into a new project in Github, but you have to manually create the new project.
# First create a new empty Github project
# In your original repository add it as a remote
git remote add subtree_repo path/to/github/repo
# push the split commit hash into the new project as master
git push subtree_repo subtree_hash:master
If you no longer have the hash, check the commit that was created by the git subtree split command. Since you used --rejoin a commit was created that merged the split tree into your master branch. One of the parents of that commit is the split tree you want.
Some extra subtree documentation.