Google copybara: moving code between repositories

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• MarkSweep 6 minutes ago
  Some other interesting tools in the space. Rust is using a tool called Josh to sync commits:

  https://josh-project.dev

  The blog post from the Rust people:

  https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/06/04/how-josh-h...

  Meta used to have an open source tool called fbshipit. But according to its open source repo they no longer use it:

  https://github.com/facebookarchive/fbshipit

  Any others in this space?
• namanyayg 51 minutes ago
  Nice, I built something similar ~5 years ago using nested git repos and scripts to accomplish a similar purpose of combined private and public repos.

  My shell script definitely wasn't google scale tho!

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  • UnfitFootprint 13 minutes ago
    Yep, same. I thought it might a wrapper around git subtree but looks like it’s doing quite a lot more!

    For example altering commit author emails during sync
• lysace 40 minutes ago
  Cute name. (Naming is hard and important.)
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  • whh 37 minutes ago
    That tune is in my head again... again...