How to create a new branch from another repository?

Question

I have a repository (repo1) with a master branch and another repository (repo2) with a master branch. Now I want to create a new branch in repo1 from repo2 with all commits history.

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My expected result:

repo2
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  master


repo1
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  master    master-from-repo2

Compression

Answer 1

cd repo1
git fetch repo2 master:master-from-repo2

Remote branch master is fetched from repo2 into local branch master-from-repo2.

Kaz

Thank you, it works fine. If repo2 has another branch and when I want to get this branch can I do it: any-branch-in-repo2:master-from-repo2 instead of master:master-from-repo2? – Compression

Yes, any branch will do. – Kaz

Thanks for the answer. But what if the repo2 that I want to fetch is local? – Retardment

@Retardment Shouldn't matter, git fetch fetches over any supported protocol, git://, ssh://, https://, file:/// (local). Just add repo2 as a remote: git remote add repo2 file:///path/to/local/repo – Kaz

@Kaz Thank you. Just fetched a local repo successfully. – Retardment