[how-to-fork-a-new-git-proj] how-to for a new git proj by re-using the history of an old one #git #fork #app #project

how-to-fork-a-new-git-proj.sh

# add the remote git host named "fork"
git remote add fork git@github.com:UserName/src_proj.git

# fetch all the data from the for
git fetch fork

# check the branches
git branch -a

# create and checkout the local target branch name
git checkout -b local_tgt_branch_name fork/src_branch_name

# checkout develop
git checkout develop

# make a backup of the current branch
curr_branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD); git branch "$curr_branch"--$(date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M"); git branch -a | grep $curr_branch | sort -nr

# and merge the changes into develop
git merge local_tgt_branch_name -S --allow-unrelated-histories -X theirs

# and check
git log --pretty --format='%h %ai %<(15)%an ::: %s'