anyone tried to move files from one repo to another in git?

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5929

Greetings,

I wonder if someone has moved a file for one git repo completely to another git repo and lived to tell about it?

Thanks,

Dagg.
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Naib · Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 7:29 am Post subject:

Yes. Use cp.
Copy the file to the new repo. Git add, commit, push
In the original use git rm to purge it. Git add, commit,push
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DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5929

Naib · Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 9:43 am Post subject:

oooh you want the history of the data rather than just the data (not what you asked

). Ok thats messy... thats grafting one repo on to another via rebase...

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GraftPoint

make a graft of the file in questions history and apply to the new repo
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DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5929