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HOWTO move files between Git repositories preserving history

Some links on topic how to move files from one repository to another preserving history:

• GitHub article about moving files into fresh repo
• article about moving files into existing repository

In few words:

• make a local copy of source repository
• use git filter-branch to filter history for files you need
• move filtering results under proper folder in source repository copy if required
• use get remote add or git remote set-url to set target repository as remote URL
• use git pull --allow-unrelated-histories to sync local and remote target repository
• do git push