Copy contents of a repo to another repo inside a folder, retaining history, branches, tags

Question

I want to copy the contents of a git repository to another repository inside a folder.

SourceRepo/ -A -B

TargetRepo -C -D folder/

i want to move (A,B) inside folder/ with branch and commit history.

Please help.

Possible duplicate of [How do you merge two Git repositories?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1425892/how-do-you-merge-two-git-repositories) — Calum Halpin, Oct 06 '19 at 10:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '19 at 11:53

The git subtree command does exactly what you want. Execute the following command on TargetRepo in the branch you want to add it to:

git subtree add --prefix=folder <git-url-of-SourceRepo> master

This will add SourceRepo's master branch inside folder in your TargetRepo.

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