Am 30.09.2012 17:24 schrieb Tomas Carnecky: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:17:53 +0200, Dirk SÃŒsserott <newsletter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have repo1 with ~4 years of history and another repo2 with ~1 year of >> history, both of which I don't want to loose. Now I want to join them so >> that repo2 becomes a subdirectory whithin repo1, including all the >> history of repo2. >> >> A simple git-merge won't do because both repos have some same files (at >> least e.g. .gitignore) in their root directories. Of course I could >> resolve the conflicts, but I don't want that. >> >> My naive approach is "move everything in $repo2 one directory below" and >> then "merge $repo2 into $repo1". Actually I wouldn' call that a "merge" >> but an "import". >> >> I know of "git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter foodir" but that's >> just the opposite of what I need. >> >> Is there a nifty trick to get this? Or will I have to do "git >> filter-branch --tree-filter 'mkdir subdir && git mv * subdir' --all" on >> $repo2 and then "git merge $repo2" in $repo1? > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html > > Wow! Thanks for that quick and *very* helpful answer! :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html