This article might be perceived as a blatant ripoff of this Linux kernel document, but, on the contrary, it’s intended as add-on, showing how to do a subtree merge (the multi-project merge strategy that’s actually doable in a heterogenous group of developers, as opposed to subprojects, which many just can’t wrap their heads around) with contemporary git (“stupid content tracker”). Furthermore, the commands are reformatted to be easier to copy/paste.

To summarise: you’re on the top level of a checkout of the project into which the “other” project (Bproject) is to be merged. We wish to merge the top level of Bproject’s “master” branch as (newly created) subdirectory “dir-B” under the current project’s top level.

	$ git remote add --no-tags -f Bproject /path/to/B/.git
	$ git merge -s ours --allow-unrelated-histories --no-commit Bproject/master
	$ git read-tree -u --prefix=dir-B/ Bproject/master
	$ git commit -m 'Merge B project as our subdirectory dir-B'

	Later updates are easy:
	$ git pull -s subtree Bproject master

(mind the trailing slash after dir-B/ on the read-tree command!)

Besides reformatting, the use of --allow-unrelated-histories recently became necessary. --no-tags is also usually what you want, because tags are not namespaced like branches.

Another command you might find relevant is how to clean up orphaned remote branches:

	$ for x in $(git remote); do git remote prune "$x"; done

This command locally deletes all remote branches (those named “origin/foo”) that have been deleted on the remote side.

Update: Natureshadow wishes you to know that there is such a command as git subtree which can do similar things to the subtree merge strategy explained above, and several more related things. It does, however, need the præfix on every subsequent pull.