Moving Files from One Git Repo into Another Preserving Change History
- 20 Oct 2023
- 1375 words
- 7 min read

Sometimes, you realize that a common library is being used in a single project but resides in its own Git repository. At other times, you may decide to merge a few Git repositories into one to reduce maintenance issues. There are many other similar scenarios that involve moving a portion of one Git repository into another. A common problem that unites all these cases is how to preserve the Git history for the moved files.
The problem can be described as follows: given two Git repositories, source and target, the task is to move content from source to target, either wholly or partially, while preserving the Git change history.