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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.

Ramratan Gupta
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Ryan
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    Possible duplicate of [git push branch to a new repo with a different name](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19105934/git-push-branch-to-a-new-repo-with-a-different-name) – Charles Aug 19 '17 at 03:06

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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

user2667549
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Achim Knupfer
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You could simply clone the repo for every branch, and delete all other branches.

For example, to keep the ui branch:

git clone <url> ui
git remote remove origin
git checkout ui
git branch -D services
pishpish
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