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---
title: "Import commits from one git repo to another"
date: 2018-09-25
description: How to take commits from one git repo and bring them into another
tags:
- git
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---
## The trick
In an ideal world there should never be a need to do this, but here is how to do it properly if you ever walk into this bizarre problem. This command imports commits from a repo in the `../masterfiles` folder and applies them to the repository inside the current folder :
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{{< highlight sh >}}
(cd ../masterfiles/; git format-patch stdout origin/master) | git am
{{< /highlight >}}