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Reputation: 699

How do I clone/fork a remote git repository to my own git repository?

I am (obviously) new to git. Here is my scenario. I have a local git repository (server that I maintain) setup for my project. I want to create create a sub-directory e.g. oss-project under my repository. And I want to get (copy) a project on github into that directory. I need to be able to: 1. maintain the commit history on the github project into my repository as well. 2. selectively pull any updates to the oss-project on github in future.

could you advise, what steps do i need to take to achive that?

git clone http://my-local-repo/my-project.git
cd my-project
md oss-project
cd oss-project
// How do i proceed ? git clone / fork the oss-project??

thanks for the help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 365

Answers (3)

SzG
SzG

Reputation: 12629

To create the oss-project submodule in the oss-project subfolder:

git submodule add git@github:user/oss-project.git oss-project

Assuming you have SSH access to oss-project. If not, use a http/git URL for read-only access.

Later if you want to use the newest version of oss-project:

cd oss-project
git checkout master
git pull origin master
cd ..
git add oss-project
git commit

Monsters ahead: git submodules are hard to remove.

Upvotes: 1

Oliver Atkinson
Oliver Atkinson

Reputation: 8029

You can use a git submodule or you can look at some alternatives.

Upvotes: 0

tehsockz
tehsockz

Reputation: 1299

Sounds like you want to use Submodules.

Upvotes: 0

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