Suppose you have a case where you have multiple repos and you must combine them into a single monorepo. It is straightforward to just simply import a repo by copy pasting the contents into a sub folder.
But what if you want to save the contents and the git history of the repo which is to be imported.
For this, we can use:
git remote add -f <remote-name> <remote-url>
git subtree add --prefix=<directory> <remote-name> <branch>Replace <remote-name>, <remote-url>, <directory>, and <branch> with your desired values. For example:
<remote-name>: A name for the remote repository (e.g.,my-remote).<remote-url>: The URL of the remote repository (e.g.,[email protected]:yourgroup/yourproject.git).<directory>: The directory where you want to add the subtree (e.g.,subtree-dir).<branch>: The branch you want to add from the remote repository (e.g.,mainormaster).