{"id":997,"date":"2012-10-18T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T06:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=997"},"modified":"2013-01-13T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:05:22","slug":"moving-a-folder-from-one-git-repo-to-another-while-keeping-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/moving-a-folder-from-one-git-repo-to-another-while-keeping-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving A Folder from One Git Repo to Another While Keeping History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moving stuff from one git repo to another while keeping the history intact is a cool way to break stuff out of old repos and migrate them around. Here’s how to do it:<\/p>\n

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git clone<\/span> --no-hardlinks<\/span> \/<\/span>path\/<\/span>to\/<\/span>sourcerepository directory-to-move
\ncd<\/span> directory-to-move
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\n# remove remote origin just so we can't break anything in the source repository<\/span>
\ngit remote<\/span> rm<\/span> origin
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\n# filter for desired files<\/span>
\ngit filter-branch<\/span> --subdirectory-filter<\/span> new-directory-name HEAD
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\n# move around files, etc.<\/span>
\n# then commit<\/span>
\ngit add<\/span> .
\ngit commit<\/span> -m<\/span> "isolated files"<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Refernece: Moving files from a Git repository to another keeping history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moving stuff from one git repo to another while keeping the history intact is a cool way to break stuff out of old repos and migrate them around. Here’s how to do it: 12345678910111213git clone –no-hardlinks \/path\/to\/sourcerepository directory-to-move cd directory-to-move # remove remote origin just so we can’t break anything in the source repository git … Continue reading “Moving A Folder from One Git Repo to Another While Keeping History”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-tips-tricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-g5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}