在git存储库中处理项目（文件夹）而无需克隆整个存储库？ GIT

Question

I have a git repository call it repoA with 5 projects (or five folders).

Project 1

Project 2

Project 3

Project 4

Project 5

I am currently working on say project 5, a developer on my team has worked on that project, but instead of committing/pushing to our git repo, they have just given me the Project 5 folder directly. I have worked on it, fixed things, its working but now I want to commit this project to the repo but I cannot do so without cloning the entire thing to a local folder then copying the contents of the project 5 folder into that repoA folder (overwriting it) and comitting that one.

The issue is that I do not want to do this for every change because it doesn't make sense. Is there anyway to get around this problem without having to clone the entire repo? I do not want to re-import a project in my IDE.

Can I just create a new branch, commit to project 5 folder from a different local folder (that my IDE has open)?

Answer 1

If you do not want to clone, you can simply copy repo folder from any of your colleague and then simply do :

git pull on master branch.

then create new feature branch for the changes/fixes you want to do from master branch.

 git checkout -b my_feature master

Then simply push the branch :

git push origin my_feature

You should not confuse folders projects with fixes you made. Git has a totally different workflow, it looks like you are new to git and have a habit of SVN like VCS.

Please note that you no longer need to clone repo everytime you do a fix. All you ned to do is go to master branch of your project,take latest code( git pull ) and create feature branch( git checkout -b my_feature master ) do the fix and push this branch to remote.

You may want to visit this interactive tutorial first before actually enjoying git.