How to push an existing branch into a new repo using git?

Question

I'm currently working on a project where we have a UI branch and a Services branch (not my branching design). We now need to separate them into two distinct repos. I am trying to find the best way to do this while preserving the history and not having the new repo track back to the old one.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You first have to add the new remote repository:

git remote add newrepo https://github.com/name.git

Then you could push your branch (yournewbranch) to this repository:

git push newrepo yournewbranch:master

If the master branch already exists you might force the update or push to an other branch on the new repository