Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Jake Howard @jake@theorangeone.net

2/8/2026, 10:35:08 PM

Public

As part of the recent django-tasks refactor, I had to extract some directories, with history, into their own repositories.

The process was quite interesting, and easier than I expected.

https://theorangeone.net/posts/git-directory-extraction/

Extracting directories into their own repositories

Software projects in git repositories (or Version Control Systems - yes there are others) tend to be made up of much more than just 1 file, or even 1 directory. To make functions and functionality easier to find, good software is split up, forming modules or isolated components which can…

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