Most projects on GitHub have a main repository that's the focal point of activity. For example, the Example organization has the Example.com repository:
https://github.com/example/example.com
Developers of Example.com typically call this the 'upstream' repository. We'll come back to it in a moment.
| To include a library as a subtree, follow these steps: | |
| 1. Add the project as a remote | |
| git remote add <remote-name> <source-repo> | |
| 2. Fetch the remote | |
| git fetch <remote-name> | |
| 3. Add the project | |
| git subtree add --prefix "path/to/project" <remote-name> <remote-branch-name> --squash |