Preserving git history across repositories

2013-12-22 Thread James E Keenan
Is it possible to preserve the commit history of a tree of files as it moves out of one repository and into another? I have two use-cases to consider: one long-term, one short-term. I. Long-term: I am considering trying to move Pod-Html from its current location within ext/ in the Perl 5

Re: Preserving git history across repositories

2013-12-22 Thread Karen Etheridge
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,