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Reputation: 101

Push a folder in a Git repo to another repo

I have a Git repo that has subfolders like:

- myproject
  + folder1
  + folder2
  + folder3

How can I push a subfolder (i.e. folder1) to another Git repo? I thought submodule was the right approach, but I don't think I'm using it correctly or if it applies here. The way I tried using submodule was:

git submodule add git@urlofnewrepo folder1

But that results in an error as:

'folder1' already exists in the index

Upvotes: 1

Views: 120

Answers (2)

lvl
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Reputation: 101

R0MANARMY pointed me to http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/04/tear-apart-repository-git-way/ which basically accomplishes what I want to do. The workflow is:

git clone remote_repo_url new_repo_name
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter folder_to_filter

So in my case, it was:

git clone remote_repo_url new_repo_name
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter folder1

This resulted in the folder "new_repo_name" only containing files from "folder1".

Upvotes: 1

0xAX
0xAX

Reputation: 21837

Try --force key, like:

git submodule add --force git@urlofnewrepo folder1

Upvotes: 0

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