I am creating a new pristine repository for the next generation of our product. I need to use some "state" from the old repo -- similar to cherry-picking. In fact, functionally it would be simply resetting to a commit on the old repo then committing the file changes to the new repository. I did find that I could checkout the old branch, reset --soft to the earliest commit, then commit those files. But it seems like a hack. Since I see upstream and origin as a bit of a pattern, it seems like this would not be too uncommon, although I guess most of those cases would want commits.
How can I move branch files from an old repository to a new one without the old commits
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You need to do a checkout --orphan so that you go to that revision (working tree content) but have no history behind it. When you do your first commit, it will be a root commit, no history behind it.