Suggestions for improvements: export tags and preserve SHAs

[jcapogna]

I have recently started using this to export private repositories for public consumption. I'm really loving it!

I have a few suggestions for improvements. I'm willing to implement these myself so I welcome any feedback or suggestions.

1) Export tags

I use tags in git to tag release versions. I would like to include these in the exported repo as well.

2) Preserve SHAs

Ideally, I could cross-reference commits in my private and public repos. Is there a way to do the export while preserving SHAs?

Please let me know if these are technically possible to implement. As I said, I could potentially implement them myself. I just haven't looked into this sort of thing before.

[kubk]

It doesn't seem like the library is supported. I use betterplace-gitexporter but I can't even find the GitHub link to their fork here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/betterplace-gitexporter

I believe you could create your own fork or reach the author of the library privately to transfer permissions. I like the project but don't have the capacity to support it. It just works and I am OK with that

[jcapogna]

I'm using this fork: https://github.com/AppFlags/gitexporter

I also wrote a semantic-release plugin to facilitate something similar to gitexporter. This takes a project and "publishes" it to another Git repository. https://www.npmjs.com/package/semantic-release-git-publish

[pahaz]

Sounds like a great contribution to the project's development. If you submit a PR, we will gladly accept it. For now, I'll mark this issue as an improvement request.