Protect Gitignored but Tracked Files
Sometimes you want to put files in git that you really shouldn’t be putting in git.
Split an Ansible Git Repo and Retain the Commit History
Starting with a jumbled git repo of various Ansible roles, playbooks, inventories, group_vars, etc. I want to create a new repo out of a selection of the subdirectories and retain the commit history.
I have an ansible-test repo with a tree that looks roughly like this:
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├── adhoc/
│ ├── rolling-reboot.yml
│ └── scripts/
├── README.md
└── runtime/
├── roles/
│ ├── foo-role/
│ └── zimbra/
│ ├── ansible.cfg
│ ├── hosts
│ ├── tasks/
│ └── ...
├── group_vars/
│ ├── foo-group
│ └── zimbra-prod
├── hosts
├── host_vars/
├── library/
│ ├── foo-lib
│ ├── zmlocalconfig
│ └── zmprov
├── foo.yml
└── zimbra-playbook.yml
I want to split that so that the Zimbra role, it’s playbook, and any ‘runtime’ context like group_vars, and libraries are managed together in a new repo called playbook-zimbra.