On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 09:51:23AM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: > Is it possible to preserve the commit history of a tree of files as > it moves out of one repository and into another?
This is a bit fiddly but it's quite doable. The steps look something like this: - create your new repository, cloned from the 'perl' repository. - find the files/directories you care about. Delete EVERYTHING else -- not just 'git rm -r', but actually wipe out knowledge of those files' existence from the history. One guide to this is here: https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data -- and now that you know the name of the git commands to use, you should be able to find lots of other documents describing variants to this technique. - now you should be left with just the one tree in the repo, including all commits in the history: ext/Pod-Html. Now you can move it to its new location using a normal 'git mv', and continue with development. (FWIW, I'd suggest doing only minimal changes at this point - rename the code to live under lib/, add a Makefile.PL, META.* and Changes, and then immediately releasing to the CPAN, to mark its move out of core -- and then continue with cleaning up the code in subsequent releases.) Thanks for taking this on -- it looks like Pod-Html has wanted a caretaker for quite some time!
