How to push new project into existing git repository

To push a new project into an existing Git repository, you'll need to follow these steps:

Prerequisites:

  1. You have a local copy of the existing Git repository (e.g., cloned from GitHub or created manually).
  2. You have a new project that you want to add to the existing repository.
  3. You have Git installed on your machine.

Step 1: Initialize the new project

Create a new directory for your project and initialize a new Git repository within it:

mkdir new-project
cd new-project
git init

Step 2: Add files to the new project

Add all the files and directories of your new project to the Git repository:

git add.
git commit -m "Initial commit of new project"

Step 3: Link the new project to the existing repository

To link the new project to the existing repository, you'll need to create a new branch in the existing repository and then merge the new project into that branch. You can do this using the following commands:

# Go back to the existing repository
cd..
git remote add new-project./new-project
git fetch new-project
git checkout -b new-project/new-project new-project/master

Here, we're creating a new branch called new-project/new-project in the existing repository, and then merging the master branch of the new project into it.

Step 4: Push the new project to the existing repository

Finally, push the new project to the existing repository:

git push origin new-project/new-project

This will create a new branch in the existing repository with the same name as the new project.

Step 5: Merge the new project into the main branch

Once the new project is pushed to the existing repository, you can merge it into the main branch (e.g., master) using the following command:

git checkout master
git merge new-project/new-project
git push origin master

This will merge the new project into the main branch and update the existing repository.

That's it! Your new project should now be part of the existing Git repository.