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    copied!<p>Our Git repositories started out as parts of a single monster SVN repository where the individual projects each had their own tree like so:</p> <pre><code>project1/branches /tags /trunk project2/branches /tags /trunk </code></pre> <p>Obviously, it was pretty easy to move files from one to another with <code>svn mv</code>. But in Git, each project is in its own repository, and today I was asked to move a subdirectory from <code>project2</code> to <code>project1</code>. I did something like this:</p> <pre><code>$ git clone project2 $ cd project2 $ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter deeply/buried/java/source/directory/A -- --all $ git remote rm origin # so I don't accidentally the repo ;-) $ mkdir -p deeply/buried/different/java/source/directory/B $ for f in *.java; do &gt; git mv $f deeply/buried/different/java/source/directory/B &gt; done $ git commit -m "moved files to new subdirectory" $ cd .. $ $ git clone project1 $ cd project1 $ git remote add p2 ../project2 $ git fetch p2 $ git branch p2 remotes/p2/master $ git merge p2 # --allow-unrelated-histories for git 2.9 $ git remote rm p2 $ git push </code></pre> <p>But that seems pretty convoluted. Is there a better way to do this sort of thing in general? Or have I adopted the right approach?</p> <p>Note that this involves merging the history into an existing repository, rather than simply creating a new standalone repository from part of another one (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/359424/detach-move-subdirectory-into-separate-git-repository">as in an earlier question</a>).</p>
 

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