Commands to copy component from one repo to another along with git history

copy-code-with-git-hx.sh

# Credit to this article for the following commands:
# http://gbayer.com/development/moving-files-from-one-git-repository-to-another-preserving-history/

# Prepare the source repo

mkdir ~/move-commits/source
git clone <git-url> ~/move-commits/source

cd ~/move-commits/source

git checkout master

git pull origin master

git remote rm origin

git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter <target-folder> -- --all

mkdir -p <target-folder>

mv * <target-folder>

git add .
git commit -m 'Staged code for copying to new repo'

# Prepare the target repo

git clone <git-url> ~/move-commits/target

cd ~/move-commits/target

git checkout -b feature/copy-code-from-source-repo

git remote add soure-repo ~/move-commits/source

git pull soure-repo master

git remote rm soure-repo

git push origin feature/copy-code-from-source-repo


# Clean up

rm -rf ~/move-commits