How to make one larger repository at top of existing repository on GitHub

Question

I have two existing repositories on GitHub, I need to make them public but at the same time I wanted them to be under a common directory so as to ease navigation between projects.

Answer 1

Depending on whether you want to keep the two repos, there's a couple of options.

• Create a new git repo and add the existing ones with git submodule add some_Url path_in_new_repo. Github lets you navigate to submodules easily. You need to update the 'super' module whenever one of the repos changes, but you retain seperate history.
• perform a subtree merge. This combines the history of the 2 repos into one.

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