From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:44:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Copying files and keeping the history
Message-ID: <32541b130906112044m7cf2c0e9s2ba4815a31e534a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0906111129x53a6d90p15a97d958a2d2f63@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Sverre Rabbelier<srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 15:20, JörgenHägg<jorgen.hagg@axis.com> wrote:
>> Is this somehow possible?
>
> Try git filter-branch to get just the commits you want and nudge them
> to contain what you want (do this in a seperate branch/copy of
> repository A). When you're done, pull the branch into B and merge it.
> Instant win?

You could also consider 'git subtree'
(http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree) to merge the other tree
(including its history) in as a subdirectory.

Avery