Let's assume that you have a local repository that you would like
to add an external vendor library to. In this case we will add the
git-subtree repository as a subdirectory of your already existing
-git-extensions repository in ~/git-extensions/.
+git-extensions repository in ~/git-extensions/:
-First we need to fetch the remote objects
- $ cd ~/git-extensions
- $ git fetch git://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree.git master
+ $ git subtree add --prefix=git-subtree --squash \
+ git://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree.git master
'master' needs to be a valid remote ref and can be a different branch
name
-Now we add the vendor library with
- $ git subtree add --prefix=git-subtree --squash FETCH_HEAD
-
You can omit the --squash flag, but doing so will increase the number
of commits that are incldued in your local repository.