{"id":11886,"date":"2024-09-01T00:23:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T22:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=11886"},"modified":"2024-09-01T00:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T22:23:46","slug":"git-copy-a-file-or-directory-from-another-repository-preserving-the-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/09\/01\/git-copy-a-file-or-directory-from-another-repository-preserving-the-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Git: Copy a file or directory from another repository preserving the history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How to copy a file or directory from another GIT repository while preserving its history?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internet is full of magic formulas<\/a> each one<\/a> more complex.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mkdir \/tmp\/mergepatchs\ncd ~\/repo\/org\nexport reposrc=myfile.c #or mydir\ngit format-patch -o \/tmp\/mergepatchs $(git log $reposrc|grep ^commit|tail -1|awk '{print $2}')^..HEAD $reposrc\ncd ~\/repo\/dest\ngit am \/tmp\/mergepatchs\/*.patch<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Simple and fast \":)\"\/<\/p>\nSource synaptic fault<\/a> http:\/\/blog.neutrino.es\/2012\/git-copy-a-file-or-directory-from-another-repository-preserving-history\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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