TIL you can set a folder with a git repository as a remote

[lunya@sk.lunya.pet]

TIL you can set a folder with a git repository as a remote

[sekomi@meowing.men]

no way, this works

cd /path/to/remote
git init --bare
cd /path/to/repo
git remote add origin file:///path/to/remote
git push origin main

[lunya@sk.lunya.pet]

@sekomi

I merged a few projects into a monorepo this way

cd monorepo
git init
cd ..

cd myproject1
mkdir myproject1/
git mv -k * myproject1/
git mv -k .* myproject1/
git commit -m "move to subdir, monorepo"
cd ..
cd monorepo
git remote add -f myproject1 ../myproject1
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories myproject1/main

boom, monorepo with preserved history

[sekomi@meowing.men]

wait, you can merge several git repos into one?

[lunya@sk.lunya.pet]

@sekomi yeah, just make sure to move them using git mv -k * subdir/ to a subdirectory and commit that, so that there are no conflicts