How to copy a file or directory from another GIT repository while preserving its history?
Internet is full of magic formulas each one more complex.
Here I’m proposing a much simpler and faster one that is to make a git format-patch for the entire history of the file or subdirectory that we want and then import it into the destination repository.
mkdir /tmp/mergepatchs cd ~/repo/org export reposrc=myfile.c #or mydir git format-patch -o /tmp/mergepatchs $(git log $reposrc|grep ^commit|tail -1|awk '{print $2}')^..HEAD $reposrc cd ~/repo/dest git am /tmp/mergepatchs/*.patchSimple and fast
Source synaptic fault http://blog.neutrino.es/2012/git-copy-a-file-or-directory-from-another-repository-preserving-history/
