Re: Canonical method of merging two projects
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- Gabriel <g2p.code@gmail.com>
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- Apr 14, 2008, 06:56 UTC
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Hello,
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:37:17 +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
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> What is the canonical way of merging an unrelated project into another > so that all of the merged project's files appear in a sub-directory of > the first? > > I have two projects, A with files "a.txt" and "b.txt", and B with files > "a.txt" and "c.txt", each in a separate Git repoistory. I want to merge > those two projects, throwing away the B repository, and achieve a file > layout that has "a.txt" and "b.txt" from A, and "B/a.txt" and "B/c.txt" > from B. I.e, the two files with the same name are unrelated, and all of > B's file should end up in a sub-directory.
This is exactly what the subtree “merge strategy” does; there is a HOWTO here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html