I have no idea how to search for this here, so I'll just go the "lazy web" approach and just ask.
Say I have two "conference" repos. One is the famous conference procedings repo, and another one is a totally unrelated repo of local conferences that are not of world-wide significance. Let's call this second repo presentations.
I would like to have my videos of both repos in a single repo.
Can I add the conference procedings repo as a git remote to the presentations repo and have it do the right thing?
In fact, I'm not even sure what the right thing would be here, I guess that's the first thing I would like to clear up. But I would like to do things like what the new metadata system does. For example, I would have only the "Debian" directory from conference procedings in my presentations repo.
How would that work? Would I need to do some subtree merging magic? or git subtree? or submodules? or should i just use myrepos and pretend I never brought up this idea?
thanks! -- anarcat
related: migrating two seperate disconnected directories to git annex - but that creates a merged repo...
It might help if you think about these two different repositories as branches. You have 2 branches with different files in them, and you want to produce a third branch with some mix of the two.
I think git is perfectly capable of doing that. Where it gets hairy is dealing with merges when either of the 2 repositories change going forward. The same as if you've forked and modified source code, you will need to do something to resolve merges.