Creating a new branch based off sub-directory of an existing branch?

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 24/08/2009 18:06, keith321 wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew of an efficient way of creating a new branch
> based off of a part (e.g. sub-directory) of an existing branch?
> 
> The most straight-forward way I can think of would be to simply grab a copy
> of the existing, delete everything except the desired portions, commit, and
> push to the new location. This would mean, however, that the new branch is
> also keeping a copy of the history of all of the irrelevant files.

You can use the split command, I think. But if you branch the sub-part, it will keep the 
whole history, indeed.

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