How to rewrite the master branch history to other Repository master branch

Question

Is there any way or any tool or commands to re write the history of master or some A branch from some commit number to newly created master branch of NEW REPOSITORY with master branch with 0 commits or no history.

In such a way that :

All the previous commits before commit number "45678" should be re written as single commit in the new repository master branch
Rewriting the history should begin from commit "45678"

Thanks

Richard · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-26T06:58:42.390

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(I don't have a suitable sacrificial repository to test this: you've been warned).

I would think merge --squash could do this.

Add new repository as remote
Create dest branch, push branch with upstream tracking to the new repository
Checkout the new branch
Merge --squash from your source branch
Commit
Push to the new repository

(See this answer as well.)

Old Content (before question edit)

Just create the new repository as a new remote on your clone of the original repository; and then push to the new repository.

git remote add newrep url-to-new-repository
git push -u newrep master

Repeat the last command for each branch you want to push.

edited Sep 26 '17 at 06:58

answered Sep 25 '17 at 14:56

Richard

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Will it push the history from the start of source repo ? I dont want to rewrite all the history but from some commit number , but it should get all the files older from that commit , is it possible ? – Shan Khan Sep 25 '17 at 14:57
@ShanKhan I wondered if you wanted that. Please clarify in the question. – Richard Sep 25 '17 at 14:58
i get error as failed to push some ref to that repo. – Shan Khan Oct 02 '17 at 09:35
@ShanKhan "I get an error" isn't a helpful comment. – Richard Oct 02 '17 at 09:44

How to rewrite the master branch history to other Repository master branch

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