Move directory in one git repository to another repository
I've been looking for a way to move a directory in a git repository to a new repository and preserve the history. We are reorganizing some code at work so that's what prompted me to start looking. The scenario is I have a repository and structure that looks like the following: repoA/ file1 file2 file3 directory1/ file1a file1b file1c directory2/ file2a file2b I want to move directory1 and all of the files in that directory(file1a, file1b, file1c) to a new git repository and preserve the change history. I want to end up with the following: repoB/ directory1/ file1a file1b file1c The solution is here . I started with this solution but with the second solution I ended up with the files from my directory1 in the root of the repo. By the time I moved the files into a new directory1 the change history was stored in the root directory of the new repo so if I was in directory1 in repoB I would need to type git log --follow file1a to actual