On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 8:49 AM Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 That particular example might be for a different case than what Richard requested, though. Let's say the original repo had a file structure like the following: module/ foo.c bar.c otherDir/ blah.config stuff.txt zebra.jpg If the request is to e.g. take module/ and all files within it with their history and make a new repository out of it, with module/ being remapped to the root of the repository, then you would want: git filtrer-repo --subdirectory-filter module and yes, this looks exactly like filter-branch; that's the one flag I copied from it. So this one usecase maps directly between the two tools. In contrast, if you wanted to keep all files from the original repo but move everything into a subdirectory named "myProject" (so that e.g. module/foo.c became myProject/module/foo.c), possibly in preparation for merging your repo into some larger monorepo, then you'd want to pass `--to-subdirectory-filter myProject` as in the link you pointed out. filter-branch doesn't have an equivalent. Hope that helps, Elijah
