How to move files from one git repo to another preserving history using `git format-patch`and `git am`

Question

Problem

I\'d like to move a folder (and subfolder contained files) from one repository to another, preserving the history.

I found one appro

Answer 1

It looks like the problem you are having is that certain files exist in both repositories you are trying to then create them from the patch. In your example these are README.md and .gitignore

When applying the patch with git-apply, you can ignore these files with --exclude=. See http://git-scm.com/docs/git-apply