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#!/bin/bash
# This script takes a remote repository and merges it into
# the current one as a subdirectory
set -e
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "Usage:"
echo " ./merge_repos.sh <repository> [name]"
echo " <repository> remote repository to merge"
echo " [name] sub-directory name (optional)"
exit
fi
REPO_REMOTE="$1"
REPO_NAME="$2"
# infer a name if one is not provided
if [ -z "$REPO_NAME" ]
then
REPO_NAME="${REPO_REMOTE##*/}"
REPO_NAME="${REPO_NAME%.*}"
fi
REPO_DIR_TMP="$(mktemp -d -t "${REPO_NAME}.XXXX")"
echo "REPO REMOTE: $REPO_REMOTE"
echo "REPO NAME: $REPO_NAME"
echo "REPO TMP DIR: $REPO_DIR_TMP"
echo
read -p "Press <Enter> to continue"
# clone other repo
git clone "$REPO_REMOTE" "$REPO_DIR_TMP"
# rewrite the entire history into sub-directory
export REPO_NAME
(
cd $REPO_DIR_TMP &&
git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --tree-filter '
mkdir -p "${REPO_NAME}_tmp"
git ls-tree --name-only $GIT_COMMIT | xargs -I{} mv {} "${REPO_NAME}_tmp"
mv "${REPO_NAME}_tmp" "$REPO_NAME"
'
)
# merge the rewritten repo
git remote add "$REPO_NAME" "$REPO_DIR_TMP"
git fetch "$REPO_NAME"
# if you're running an older version of git, remove --allow-unrelated-histories
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories "$REPO_NAME/main"
# delete the rewritten repo
rm -rf "$REPO_DIR_TMP"
git remote rm "$REPO_NAME"
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