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Re: Move some files, with all history, from one project into a new one

From
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2020, 15:49 UTC
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<20200415154944.GA22823@syl.local>
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<20200415151128.GA2464307@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:11:28AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 08:31:35AM +0000, Kerry, Richard wrote:
>
> > I would like to move some files, from the project in which they have
> > always resided into  a new project.  I would like to keep all their
> > history.  I don't want to waste space by also moving the rest of the
> > old project's history, or historical file contents.
>
> Try git-filter-branch's --subdirectory repository, which is designed to
> do exactly this.
>
> Or the much newer (and faster) git-filter-repo:
>
>   https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo

For what it's worth, Elijah has provided some excellent documentation on how to use git-filter-repo to do exactly this here:

  https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo#solving-this-with-filter-repo

Thanks, Taylor

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  1. Kerry, RichardApr 15, 2020
  2. Jeff KingApr 15, 2020
  3. Taylor BlauApr 15, 2020
  4. Elijah NewrenApr 16, 2020
  5. Kerry, RichardApr 17, 2020

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