From: Jared Tobin <jared@jtobin.io>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merging two Git-Repositories
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:03:54 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191217110354.GA82154@castor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-c6dbf360-5abe-43df-8428-85514195a7a6-1576574916643@3c-app-gmx-bs62>
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On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 10:28:36AM +0100, Steve Keller wrote:
> Is it possible to merge one Git-Repository into another? I have
> developed two independent repositories A and B, and now I find that B
> should be part of A in new sub-directory, e.g. A/B. I want to move B
> into A while keeping the whole development history of B.
You can accomplish this with git-subtree(1), for which IMO the intuition
of "exotic merge commit" more or less suffices.
An example (from A):
git remote add B B_REMOTE_ADDRESS
git subtree add --prefix B B master
-- jared
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-17 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-17 9:28 Merging two Git-Repositories Steve Keller
2019-12-17 10:02 ` Roger Gammans
2019-12-17 11:03 ` Jared Tobin [this message]
2019-12-17 20:13 ` Stephan Beyer
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