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Asked: 2026-06-03T02:31:18+00:00

I have the following folder structure: foo/ foo/bar foo/baz foo/bee I created a git

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I have the following folder structure:

foo/
foo/bar
foo/baz
foo/bee

I created a git repository on foo/bar/.git.

I realized later on that I needed to include all the other directories in foo in a git repository, so I created a git repository on foo/.git.

foo/.git
foo/bar/.git
foo/baz
foo/bee

I could just delete foo/bar/.git but I want to be able to keep the history of that git repository but within foo/.git instead of foo/bar/.git.

I was trying to read on submodules but if I understand correctly it is a way to integrate a version of an existing repository as a subtree of your own repository.

I’m not entirely sure this is what I need. I don’t need to keep foo/bar/.git. I want the foo/.git to be my main repository. I just wanted to know if there was a way to keep or integrate the history of the foo/bar/.git within foo/.git so I could remove foo/bar/.git.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Why not create a bar directory in foo/bar, git mv everything into foo/bar/bar, then move (without involving git) foo/bar/.git to .git and the contents of foo/bar/bar up to foo/bar finally removing the now empty foo/bar/bar subfolder.

    Then you can add the rest of the subdirectories to the git repository which is now in foo.

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