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Developer Merges Multiple GitHub Repositories Into Single Repo
6.1
A developer merged two GitHub projects (react-a11y-footnotes and eleventy-plugin-footnotes) into a new repository, accessible-footnotes, while preserving all commits, tags, and releases. They used git subtree to import histories, created an empty initial commit to avoid a HEAD error, and ran a GitHub CLI Bash script to recreate releases and migrate assets. The process maintains traceable release commits and release notes.
Key Points
- 1Used git subtree to import repositories and preserve full commit histories into a new monorepo.
- 2Created an empty initial commit to resolve the ambiguous 'HEAD' error when adding subtrees.
- 3Wrote a GitHub CLI Bash script to migrate releases, tags, and assets while preserving commit references.
Scoring Rationale
Practical, directly usable migration guide preserving commits and releases; limited novelty and based on a single-author workflow.
Sources
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