Re: Preserving git history across repositories

In article
<CAATnKFC2=66r7b-DgrbrU+6v7vNvf2MgY1rp87HP3OA86A=vPg@mail.gmail.com>,
Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 23 December 2013 03:51, James E Keenan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is it possible to preserve the commit history of a tree of files as it moves
> > out of one repository and into another
> 
> 
> I believe what you want to do is as follows:
> 
> 1. Clone the Perl repository
> 2. Perform a branch filter on all branches to move ext/Pod-Html/* to /
> ( See git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter )
> 3. Possibly perform a branch filter to remove empty commits

I did this to move all of my modules from the big, single SVN repo I
had in SourceForge to separate repos for GitHub. It still seems like
wonderful magic to me.

After the filter you probably want to do a gc.

http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_brian_d_foy/journal/37296.html