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title: "git: merge two repositories"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2025/10/git-merge-two-repositories/
last_updated: 2026-02-16
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Daniel Roy Greenfeld, [TIL: Merging two git projects](https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/til-2025-09-merging-two-git-projects):

> Of course this task can be done with copy/paste. The challenge there is the
> loss of git history. All the history of struggles and tribulations are gone.
> More important is the attribution — unless any and all contributors are made
> co-authors. But then the volume of attribution isn't accurate, some one who
> made one tiny change gets as much credit as the leading contributor.

Adapted to my own words: we will merge "atreides" into "harkonnen".

- `cd` to `harkonnen`
- `git remote add atreides {atreides git repo URL}`
- `git fetch atreides` (or `git fetch --all`)
- `git merge atreides/master --allow-unrelated-histories`  # or main, if applicable

Fin.