Git: Moving a sub-directory to a new repo with history

I needed to move a directory within a git repo to its own repo, but I wanted to preserve commit history. Using a sub directory filter in git can allow you to take a sub directory and make it a stand-alone git repository without losing commit history.

[ramirodeelias]

hi, great video!
but I have one question, when you used the git filter-branch command, you specified only 1 subdirectory. So let's say I want to do the same but with more than 1 subdirectory, how would you do it?
we want to do that in our project but that command did not work for more than 1.

[muhammadroshanmughees]

following this video was really hard because normally we want to move one complete repository to another with its history. For me this didnt work

[sreerajTR]

Thanks for the video. How to sync the later changes from the source repo to the new repo?

[ManishRitsupport]

Hi Nice video.. Thanks for the efforts :)
i still have one doubt, in the main project the sub folder will be retained? or Just moved to new repo. ?

[roit]

Hi i want to create a duplicate of a directory in same repository with history, can you please guide how to achieve that?

[kittukrish]

Hi jhenry,
Nice Video.
I have a question. If I have two repos, which should be in sync but they are not. One of repo is ahead of another with multiple branches and few commits. In that case, will the above mentioned way work fine ? Is there any ideal approach to do it ?
Assuming those two repos are in different github accounts.
Thanks in Advance !!

[ankitgoyal]

Hey, it's nice video
Using this command we can push the data of of folder from repo1 to repo2 is there any way to push that folder from repo1 to repo2 ?

[heliocloud]

I needed to add git pull --no-rebase origin main. After, override. Then, I need Add Readme, and commit, because I had conflicts with Readme... Then, finally, I could use git pull origin main

[milind]

Good contents, but poor quality video. (blurred)