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Re: Merging two Git-Repositories

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JTJared Tobin <jared@jtobin.io>
Date
Dec 17, 2019, 11:03 UTC
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<20191217110354.GA82154@castor>
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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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