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How to move files between repositories preserving history
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  • Orig repo:
INITCOMMIT=$(git rev-list --parents HEAD | egrep "^[a-f0-9]{40}$")
  • Dest repo:
git format-patch --git-dir=/repo_orig/.git --stdout $INITCOMMIT..HEAD | git am
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smoya commented Feb 22, 2016

In some cases, just adding the source repository as remote in the destination one, and merge the required branch is better than the previous method.

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