From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:12:30 GMT
Subject: Re: copy selected history between repostories
Message-ID: <32541b130807181012o3b56c413g31667baca1732b01@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18533605.post@talk.nabble.com>

On 7/18/08, luisgutz <luis@xmos.com> wrote:
>  Is there any way to import that directory into repoA with all it's history,
>  but NOT the history from the other commits?
>  Another way of putting is this: can I make git forget the history of all
>  other commits but those from this directory?

Try cloning the repository, then running git-filter-branch with the
--subdirectory-filter option.  It works quite nicely.

Have fun,

Avery