On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Richard Kennaway <richard.kenna...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a set of about a dozen git repositories, side by side in the > same folder. But they aren't separate projects, conceptually they're > one project. > > This is an obviously insane arrangement, but never mind how it got > like that, it is like that. I would like move from the current state, > which is a directory Z containing repositories A, B, C, D, to having > a git repository Z, containing directories A, B, C, D. You can use `git subtree add` to achieve this. It's a part of Git since, IIRC, 1.8.x or something. The basic idea is this: 1) Pick a "mainline" branch (the one you'd like to integrate) in each of your A ... D repos. For simplicity, let it be "master". 2) Then in your master repository, you do: git fetch url_of_repo_A master:masterA git subtree add dirA masterA git branch -D masterA 3) Repeat for the rest of the repositories. In the end you will have 4 new commits on the current branch of your master repository which merge histories of those integrated branches from imported repos. Obviously, before those merge commits the histories of the master and imported repositories will be disjoint but it's better than any manual approach of "stitching" histories. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
