Note
In order to apply the settings globally add
--global parameter to the
git config
command
e.g
git config --global user.name "MyUserName"
Setting username and email
git config user.name "MyUserName"
git config user.email "myusername@mail.net"
Specify which ssh key to use
git config core.sshCommand "ssh -i ~/.ssh/custom_id_ed25519"
Move directory to a new git repository
1. Clone the main repository that contains the directory to move.
git clone REPOSITORY-NAME.git
2. Change directory to the cloned repo
cd REPOSITORY-NAME
3. The
filter-repo option will filter out the subdirectory from the rest of the files in the current repository and rewrite the git history.
git filter-repo --subdirectory-filter DIRECTORY/TO/EXPORT
Once the above command executed successfully, you will see that the current directory has only files that were in the subdirectory.
4. Add new origin and push all files to the new repo
git remote add origin git@NEW_REPOSITORY.git
git push -u origin --all
git push -u origin --tags
Remove directory and its history
git filter-repo --path DIRECTORY/TO/REMOVE --invert-paths
Rewrite all commits to new user.name and user.email in git history
git filter-branch -f --env-filter "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='NEW_NAME'; GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='NEW_EMAIL'; GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='NEW_NAME'; GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='NEW_EMAIL';" HEAD