From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:49:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Move some files, with all history, from one project into a new one
Message-ID: <20200415154944.GA22823@syl.local>
In-Reply-To: <20200415151128.GA2464307@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:11:28AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 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