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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: copy selected history between repostories
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:12:30 -0400
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On 7/18/08, luisgutz <luis@xmos.com> wrote:
>  Is there any way to import that directory into repoA with all it's history,
>  but NOT the history from the other commits?
>  Another way of putting is this: can I make git forget the history of all
>  other commits but those from this directory?

Try cloning the repository, then running git-filter-branch with the
--subdirectory-filter option.  It works quite nicely.

Have fun,

Avery