如何使现有回购成为 GitHub 上新回购的子回购？

Question

I have taken some challenges on frontendmentor and created these repositories on GitHub:

FEM-calculator-project

FEM-Landing-page

Is it possible to move these two repositories into a new one named:

frontendmentor-challenges

I've been stuck with this for a while now. Is there a way around it?

Answer 1

I have no knowledge in front- and backend so my answer will be based on my knowledge in Git. You can add one repo as a submodule inside the other repo. After doing that you can navigate to the submodule and deal with it as normal repo.

so for example, given that you have cloned the frontendmentor-challenges now navigate to it and add FEM-calculator-project and FEM-Landing-page as submodules inside frontendmentor-challenges .

To add submodule:

$ git submodule add <remote_url>  /*of the repo that you want to add as submodule*/  
$ git commit -m "comment"
$ git push

There is alot to know about submodules, like updating the submodule and so on. I hope this works for you:)

Answer 2

Sometime, we want to add some repository (child repo) in a repository (parent repo), but want to manage child repos independently.

That's when we need submodule, you can refer first

add child repo to parent repo (same clone), you can check cat.git/config . Then, you can add, commit normally.

git submodule add <link child repos>

In some cases, you are not pulling a Git submodule but you are simply look to update your existing Git submodule in the project. Like you code on module A but need to use the new feature on module B

git submodule update --remote --merge

when you clone paren repos, git do not auto clone submodule, you must update and pull submodule

git submodule update --init
git submodule update --recursive --remote
git pull --recurse-submodules

when submodule is no longer use, you can remove it

git submodule deinit <path_to_submodule_folder> -f
git rm <path_to_submodule_folder>
git commit -m "Remove submodule" .
rm -rf .git/modules/<path_to_submodule_folder>

I don't use A too much either, so here are some uses I know.

Hopefully this help you.