Super repository
3 messages between Apr 6, 2026 and Apr 7, 2026, from Gabor Urban, Christian Couder, Theodore Tso.
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Hi guys,
I need some help. I could not find how look for solution.
We have a project in:../foo/Project1 under git locally for a while. In a couple of days (or weeks) we are to start two new projects. According to the management we have to make ../foo/Project2 and ../foo/Projetc3 to be brought under git.
The real issue: we are told the create a new repository for all 3 projects (inf /foo/), but we must not lose the development history stored in the local git repositiy of Project1
Is there any good solution for that? Thanks for your help in advance.
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Re: Super repository
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 8:36 AM Gabor Urban <urbangabo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi guys,
>
> I need some help. I could not find how look for solution.
>
> We have a project in:../foo/Project1 under git locally for a while. In
> a couple of days (or weeks) we are to start two new projects.
> According to the management we have to make ../foo/Project2 and
> ../foo/Projetc3 to be brought under git.
>
> The real issue: we are told the create a new repository for all 3
> projects (inf /foo/), but we must not lose the development history
> stored in the local git repositiy of Project1
>
> Is there any good solution for that? Thanks for your help in advance.
This looks quite similar to the example on:
https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo?tab=readme-ov-file#simple-example-with-comparisons
Best, Christian.
Re: Super repository
On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 08:36:08AM +0200, Gabor Urban wrote:
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> We have a project in:../foo/Project1 under git locally for a while. In
> a couple of days (or weeks) we are to start two new projects.
> According to the management we have to make ../foo/Project2 and
> ../foo/Projetc3 to be brought under git.
>
> The real issue: we are told the create a new repository for all 3
> projects (inf /foo/), but we must not lose the development history
> stored in the local git repositiy of Project1
>
> Is there any good solution for that? Thanks for your help in advance.
So in general this is a bad idea if Project 2 and Project 3 hare going to be separate projects and you aren't planning on merging them into a single tree. Is your company trying to do this because they are too cheap to pay github for more than one private repository, by any chance?
In any case, depending on what exactly you are trying to do, take a look at the two answers here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/17wj0bj/merging_multiple_repositories_into_one/
- Ted