This function will clone remote repo into local repo dir, after merging all commits will be saved, git log
will be show the original commits and proper paths:
function git-add-repo
{
repo="$1"
dir="$(echo "$2" | sed 's/\/$//')"
path="$(pwd)"
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
remote="$(echo "$tmp" | sed 's/\///g'| sed 's/\./_/g')"
git clone "$repo" "$tmp"
cd "$tmp"
git filter-branch --index-filter '
git ls-files -s |
sed "s,\t,&'"$dir"'/," |
GIT_INDEX_FILE="$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new" git update-index --index-info &&
mv "$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new" "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"
' HEAD
cd "$path"
git remote add -f "$remote" "file://$tmp/.git"
git pull "$remote/master"
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories -m "Merge repo $repo into master" --edit "$remote/master"
git remote remove "$remote"
rm -rf "$tmp"
}
How to use:
cd current/package
git-add-repo https://github.com/example/example dir/to/save
If make a little changes you can even move files/dirs of merged repo into different paths, for example:
repo="https://github.com/example/example"
path="$(pwd)"
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
remote="$(echo "$tmp" | sed 's/\///g' | sed 's/\./_/g')"
git clone "$repo" "$tmp"
cd "$tmp"
GIT_ADD_STORED=""
function git-mv-store
{
from="$(echo "$1" | sed 's/\./\\./')"
to="$(echo "$2" | sed 's/\./\\./')"
GIT_ADD_STORED+='s,\t'"$from"',\t'"$to"',;'
}
# NOTICE! This paths used for example! Use yours instead!
git-mv-store 'public/index.php' 'public/admin.php'
git-mv-store 'public/data' 'public/x/_data'
git-mv-store 'public/.htaccess' '.htaccess'
git-mv-store 'core/config' 'config/config'
git-mv-store 'core/defines.php' 'defines/defines.php'
git-mv-store 'README.md' 'doc/README.md'
git-mv-store '.gitignore' 'unneeded/.gitignore'
git filter-branch --index-filter '
git ls-files -s |
sed "'"$GIT_ADD_STORED"'" |
GIT_INDEX_FILE="$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new" git update-index --index-info &&
mv "$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new" "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"
' HEAD
GIT_ADD_STORED=""
cd "$path"
git remote add -f "$remote" "file://$tmp/.git"
git pull "$remote/master"
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories -m "Merge repo $repo into master" --edit "$remote/master"
git remote remove "$remote"
rm -rf "$tmp"
Notices
Paths replaces via sed
, so make sure it moved in proper paths after merging.
The --allow-unrelated-histories
parameter only exists since git >= 2.9.