@Samuel Lijin I tried now and I get: "merge: branch_name - not something we can merge". Maybe that is something easy to fix but currently I am using a workaround script so I am not putting any more effort at this at the moment. @David Aguilar That's true but the trailing slash is already there. This commands looks promising. An update would be GREAT! FYI that's the script I am using to address this problem: #!/bin/bash function initial { if git remote | grep -q lisa_remote then echo "Subtree delete & update" git checkout lisa_branch git pull git checkout master git merge --squash -s subtree --no-commit lisa_branch git merge --squash --allow-unrelated-histories -s subtree --no-commit lisa_branch else echo "Add subtree" git remote add lisa_remote git@xxxxxxxx:lisa/lisa.git git fetch lisa_remote git checkout -b lisa_branch lisa_remote/master git checkout master git read-tree --prefix=lisaSubTree/ -u lisa_branch gitrm git rm --cached -r lisaSubTree/.gitignore git rm --cached -r lisaSubTree/* fi } initial On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:44 PM, David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 08:59:06AM -0600, Samuel Lijin wrote: >> Have you tried using (without -s subtree) -X subtree=path/to/add/subtree/at? >> >> From the man page: >> >> subtree[=<path>] >> This option is a more advanced form of subtree >> strategy, where the strategy >> makes a guess on how two trees must be shifted to match >> with each other when >> merging. Instead, the specified path is prefixed (or >> stripped from the >> beginning) to make the shape of two trees to match. > > I'm not 100% certain, but it's highly likely that the subtree=<prefix> > argument needs to include a trailing slash "/" in the prefix, > otherwise files will be named e.g. "fooREADME" instead of > "foo/README" when prefix=foo. > > These days I would steer users towards the "git-subtree" command in > contrib/ so that users don't need to deal with these details. It > handles all of this stuff for you. > > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt > > https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/subtree > > Updating the progit book to also mention git-subtree, in addition to the > low-level methods, would probably be a good user-centric change. > -- > David