GitHub include from another repository

Question

I'm new to github.

I have a github repo on my machine. I want to include another repo (as a third party) into my repo. I believe I should make a fork first. But how do I include it on my local repo?

I've tried submodules but with no success...

Thanks.

Answer 1

git submodule remains the recommended way: you can declare (git submodule add) a repo which doesn't belong to you, or a fork (which, by definition, belongs to you).

Don't forget though, that:

• you still need to git submodule update --init in order to see that submodule repo being displayed with its full content in your repo
• add and commit the special entry representing the root directory of that submodule in your main (parent) repo, and push that commit, in order to validate that declaration.