git-clone-with-history

A git plugin that will copy a directory to a new location with each files commit history.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/kwelch-eb/git-copy-with-history.git
make install

This will install the plugin into usr/local/bin which is git will pick up any plugins in path

Usage

git copy-with-history <source_path> <destination_path>

The paths can be absolute or relative.

Further Reading

• How it works - Goes into the process of finding this solution