How to combine two branches from two different repositories in a single repository?

Question

The structures of my Git repositories look like this:

A-B-C-D-E-F   # master branch in separate repo1
A-B-C-D-E-G-H # master branch in separate repo2
         


        

Answer 1

You can treat another git repository on the same filesystem as a remote repo.

In the first, do the following:

git remote add  /path/to/other/repo/.git
git fetch 
git branch  /master #optional

Now they're both branches in a single repository. You can switch between them with git checkout, merge with git merge, etc.