mergeGitRepos

mergeGitRepos is a simple Python script to merge several Git repositories into one, preserving history and mapping branches.

Features

• Simple Yaml configuration
• Safe. It works on checkouts of the original repositories and creates a new local repository that has no remote defined. Nothing is ever pushed anywhere.
• Each source repository becomes a subfolder in the new repository, optionally renamed
• Explicit mapping of which source branches need to be merged into which destination branch

Requirements

• Python 3
• git
• git filter-repo

Usage

• DO NOT use this script in a folder with your existing repos. Start in an empty folder.
• clone mergeGitRepos and move into it.
• copy mergeGitRepos.conf.template into mergeGitRepos.conf
• edit mergeGitRepos.conf (the template is pre-configured with a working example. You can run it as-is the first time and see what it produces).
• run ./mergeGitRepos.py (--help for help)
• go into the new folder and explore content and history.
• if happy, define a git remote (none is defined by the script) and push