[Kde-scm-interest] Re: moving code from a KDE project to another one...

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:16, Torgny Nyblom <kde at nyblom.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 24 March 2011 15.42.28 Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would to move wikimedia kipi-plugin source code from this place :
>>
>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/silk/repository/revisions/
>> master/show/mediawiki/kipi-plugin
>>
>> to this place :
>>
>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/kipi-plugins/repository
>>
>> How to do it without to lost Git history ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>
> Sysadmin bug
>
> /Regards
> Torgny

I don't think so. He wants to take a repo and make it a sub-directory
to another repo.

I've never done this before, but google shows a couple ways to do it.
Basically you filter-branch the repo to make it a sub-directory and
then just merge it into the destination repo.

Ian