[tpm] [OT] Git repo combination

[Matthew Phillips]

Antonio,
You would want to use git subtree for this use case:
http://git-scm.com/book/ch6-7.html  (Antonio, sorry for the double send.
meant to reply-all).

Cheers,
Matt

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Antonio Sun <antoniosun at lavabit.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Olaf Alders <olaf.alders at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> > An off-topic question on Git -- how to put my locally managed Git repo
>> under a sub-folder of another remote Git repo?
>> >
>> > My locally managed Git repo was created totally locally, without any
>> remote repo. Now I hope everything, including the histories, can show up
>> under a sub-folder of another remote Git repo.
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>> Hi Antonio,
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>> I think you want "git submodule".
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>> http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules
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> Thanks Olaf,
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> That's not quite what I was looking for. For git submodule, "you want to
> be able to treat the two projects as *separate *yet still be able to use
> one from within the other. . .  Submodules allow you to keep a Git
> repository as a subdirectory of another Git repository. This lets you clone
> another repository into your project and keep your commits separate."
>
> I wasn't able to find a remote repo for my local repo until recently, now
> I just want to give my local repo a remote repo, but should be under a sub
> folder. Afterward, there would be only one *combined *repo. Would that be
> possible?
>
> Thanks
>
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