Move the directory to the git repository to another git repository, preserving part of the commit history

Question

I set aside the existing git ( originalrepo) repository on my own github, called this repo myrepo.

I edited two or three files in a specific directory here, say mydir.
However, mydirit is not located directly in myrepo, instead it is similar to myrepo/dirA/dirB/mydir.

Now my group has set up a separate git repository called grouprepo, and I want to move the files that I worked on this new repo.

I want to transfer it directly to grouprepo/mydirand save the commit history, but only those commits that I made (not including thousands of commits from originalrepo), and only move the files to which I made changes.

Is it possible? If so, how?

Answer 1

You can do this very simply:

• Add a second start to your new project, pointing to the "old"

• select the necessary commits

  # Add the reference to the old project where your commits are
  git remote add origin2 < url>
  
  # get all the data from all the repositories
  git fetch --all --prune
  
  # Now checkout the branch you want to add your previous commit to
  git checkout <branch>
  
  # "pick" the desired commits you want
  git cherry-pick commit1 commit2 ... commit
  

And you are all set up, and your commits (and only them) are in your current branch.

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cherry-pick

select which commits (from any branch or may even be a free commit) select this commit and put it in my current branch, in other words - make any commit from anywhere in the repository, add it to my branch

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cherry-pick
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