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student.cologne

Reputation: 145

clone project from one repository to other

i have a folder with two git-repository, say "rcr-internals" and "prv.project.repository.bare".

I have to move (copy) only one project from one repository to other.

With other words - "prv.project.repository.bare/project_1" have to be copied to "rcr-internals/project_1".

At last i need to have the change history in "rcr-internals"-repository

i have tried to do the following:

admin@linux:~/git/rcr-internals> git clone file://..prv.project.repository.bare/project_1/

but it doesn't work

is it possible to do it and how to do it?

thank for assistance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 115

Answers (2)

CodeWizard
CodeWizard

Reputation: 142572

You simply need to add the remote(s) to your project. Once you have added the remotes you can do what you want with it

http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Working-with-Remotes#Adding-Remote-Repositories

What can you do?

  • Clone the original repo
  • Add new remote git remote add <origin2> <url2>
  • Use the code from both the repositories inside a single repo

Now you can pull and merge the branches from the 2 remotes and have the code of both of them in a single repository.

As you can see in the image below you will have 2 repositories which builds up your big repository.

# clone first repository
git clone <repo1>

# add remote 
git remote add <remote2> <url2>

# fetch all your data from all the remotes
git fetch --all --prune

# list of all the remotes
git remote -v

enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

SnehalK
SnehalK

Reputation: 719

you don't have to clone repository prv.project.repository.bare to copy folder. You may add repository as a remote and then checkout project_1 from required branch. Something like below:

git remote add prv <url of prv.project.repository.bare>
git fetch prv
git checkout prv/<branch_name> -- project_1

Upvotes: 2

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