Merge github repos, preserving history

readme.txt

Clone and merge github repo into archive as a subfolder, preserving commit history

gitarchive.sh

# before running the script prepare archhive folder in the same location
export REPONAME={HelloWorldRepo}
export GHUSER={UsersUsername}

git clone git@github.com:$GHUSER/$REPONAME.git
cd $REPONAME
git filter-repo --to-subdirectory-filter $REPONAME
cd ../archive
git remote add $REPONAME ../$REPONAME
git fetch $REPONAME --tags
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories $REPONAME/master -m"merge"
git remote remove $REPONAME
git push
cd ..