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I'm working with Git programmatically. I have two repos, A and B. I want to clone A into a dir "./foo", then get just the contents of repo B into "./foo". So ./foo will be linked to repo A, but have all the files from both.

Is there any efficient way to do this? Right now, my pattern looks like this:

clone repoA into ./foo clone repoB into a temp directory delete .git from temp directory copy contents of temp directory into ./foo

This works, but is a little slower than i'd like. Any better way?

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  • Would submodules work here? Commented Nov 9, 2017 at 20:56
  • The contents of a repo are commits (which are the history of the repository). The description you give is about files, i.e., one commit; so that's not really getting the contents of B into A. Which do you want? Commented Nov 9, 2017 at 21:08

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Since you’re only interested in the file contents of Repo B, I would suggest that when you’re cloning it, you use the --depth option to copy only the most recent commit:

git clone --depth 1 repoB.url /path/to/tmp/dir

This creates a shallow clone of the repository and not having to download all the other commits will greatly speed up the cloning.

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Wow! Fastest acceptance ever! Are you sure you don't want to wait and see if someone comes up with something better?

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