From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Lehmann Subject: Re: Creating a submodule and bringing history from the main project Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:30:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4C72A23F.4030600@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Guillermo Gonzalez X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 23 18:31:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OnZvK-0006en-5N for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:31:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752688Ab0HWQa5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:30:57 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:57842 "EHLO fmmailgate02.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752213Ab0HWQa4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:30:56 -0400 Received: from smtp04.web.de ( [172.20.0.225]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4EE416E7B9F9; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:30:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [93.246.62.127] (helo=[192.168.178.29]) by smtp04.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #24) id 1OnZvD-0001Zk-00; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:30:55 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-Sender: Jens.Lehmann@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19qsZj0r8PpKC+alSSGUY0Y8H3+fQdJ+ZHOm2Pf Br+CGMfNs/IJexM3uTDFJU3r3ovXSxPIYSnmlfSGRm9EpZeQJl tR6PLwPp1ri8lM3PxSFQ== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 22.08.2010 19:24, schrieb Guillermo Gonzalez: > Is it possible to somehow export the history of say lib/componentX > into a new repository componentX.git? Sounds like you want to use "git filter-branch", see: http://progit.org/book/ch6-4.html#making_a_subdirectory_the_new_root