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some steps from http://www.pixelite.co.nz/article/extracting-file-folder-from-git-repository-with-full-git-history/

From the original repository:

git log --pretty=email --patch-with-stat --reverse --full-index --binary -- <path/to/file_or_folder> [path/to/additional/file/or/folder] > /tmp/<patch name>`

In the repository where the history should be imported:

  1. from master, git checkout -b <name of pre-release branch>
  2. git checkout --orphan <name of orphan branch>
  3. git reset to unstage the files that already existed in the repository
  4. rm -rf * to remove the previous files that are now unstaged (be careful to not remove the .git/ directory)
  5. git am < /tmp/<patch name> to apply the patch to the orphan branch
  6. git merge <name of pre-release branch> --allow-unrelated-histories
  7. verify that existing and extracted/imported tests pass
  8. repeat with additional patches if missing dependencies are discovered
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travi commented Sep 9, 2022

https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/#solving-this-with-filter-repo is another option that i've used successfully. this is especially useful when keeping tags is desired.

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