Moving files from super-repo to submodule about git-filter-repo HOT 2 CLOSED

So...if I understand correctly, you had a repo with various disparate collections of files (perhaps which grow or are generated over time). Since you had to repeatedly do this filtering operation, that kind of rules out the original files having been a subdirectory that you just split off and included as a submodule at the same path. So, I presume you now have different paths for these files relative to the super-module since they are prefixed by the location of the submodule.

Further, you didn't just do one filtering operation, but did one to create a new repo (likely also doing another to remove those files from the original repo?), waited a while, did a new filtering operation to generate a new repo that you then merged (probably using --allow-unrelated-histories) with the first created repo (and maybe doing another at the same time to remove the second set of files from the main repo), etc.

Am I getting this right so far?

I'm not sure why you need to do multiple distinct filtering operations and include all branches and tags each time, but presuming you really do want to do this, can you just use a different prefix for the branches and tags each time? Then you don't run into duplicate tags.

I feel like there's a good chance I'm misunderstanding what you are trying to do; I definitely don't yet understand why you want to do it. But hopefully that helps somehow.

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I'll assume this answered your question and close out; let me know if that's not the case.

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