Moving stuff from one git repo to another while keeping the history intact is a cool way to break stuff out of old repos and migrate them around. Here’s how to do it:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | git clone --no-hardlinks /path/to/sourcerepository directory-to-move cd directory-to-move # remove remote origin just so we can't break anything in the source repository git remote rm origin # filter for desired files git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter new-directory-name HEAD # move around files, etc. # then commit git add . git commit -m "isolated files" |
Refernece: Moving files from a Git repository to another keeping history