In this tutorial, I will guide you all how to convert a folder in a GIT repository into a new GIT repository.
Here, I use Git on Windows.
OK, I have a repository with the following content:
Now, my need is to separate the coffee project directory into a new repository. So how do I do?
We have 5 steps to do this:
First, open Git Bash and navigate to the directory of the repository.
In this example, I will navigate to the webbotsolutions.net directory and open Git Bash
Next, we will execute the following statement:
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git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter <folder_name> HEAD -- --all |
<folder_name> is the name of the project directory that you want to migrate to a new GIT repository, to remove all existing folders in current GIT repository.
Here, I will execute the following statement:
Put this folder to root:
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git reset --hard |
Then continue with the following statements:
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git gc --aggressive |
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git prune |
The last step we need to do is to remove the GIT remote repository URL being configured for the current repository with the following statement:
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git remote rm origin |
Here we have completed the conversion, the results are as follows:
The current repository is just a local GIT repository, if you want to include it in the remote GIT repository, please refer to this tutorial.
