Git: Moving files to a new repository while preserving history

1 2	> git --version git version 2.18.0

This method did not work for me: Move files from one repository to another, preserving git history
But this one did the trick: Moving Files and Directories to a New Repository in Git

Here is the list of commands used in order to extract the contents of the perl/ directory from the connectmv repo. into the ss-sms-vas repo.:

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> mkdir cloneA > cd cloneA/ > git clone git@github.com:<MY_TEAM>/connectmv.git > cd connectmv/ > git subtree split --prefix perl/ --branch my-subtree > git checkout my-subtree > git remote add repoA git@github.com::<MY_TEAM>/ss-sms-vas.git > git pull repoA main --allow-unrelated-histories   > git push -u repoA my-subtree:main > cd ../../ > rm -rf cloneA/   > cd ss-sms-vas/ > git pull > git lol lib/MBQT/mod_perl/AbstractVas.pm * 72be224f (Thu Jan 7 18:32:47 2021 Jerome G) PLTBUGS-8700: exploded USSD CDR per process * 680a9ff2 (Thu Jan 7 13:51:45 2021 Jerome G) PLTBUGS-8700: removed unlock ...