Is it possible to add a project that is only stored on my local machine to a branch of an existing project on Github.

For example add:

local-project

to the Github repo:

https://github.com/myusername/my-project/local-branch.git

Can this be done or should the local repo first be pushed to it's own Github repo?

Additional info: Here is some extra info as per the comments I have received so far. So basically I have a Github repo (my-project) that contains a Next.js project that is currently in production. I would like to update this project to a completely different language (REACT NATIVE), that is currently still in development. The React Native version I have been working on is only locally on my computer, as I cloned a repo and haven't pushed it to Github yet. My ultimate goal is to have the React Native version as a branch (local-branch) in the (my-project) Github repo. Then when the local-branch is ready for production I can simply merge it to main.

CodePudding user response：

First of all: you can push a branch, not repository.

Now:

git remote add remote-repo <remote-repo-url>
git push remote-repo local-branch:<remote-new-branch-name>

CodePudding user response：

First to clarify some terminology, you can't "push a local repository". Instead, you can push a branch from your local repo to a remote repo. First you need to create a remote:

git remote add <name> <url>

For example

git remote add my-remote https://github.com/myusername/my-project/local-branch.git

By default, git will create a remote named origin when you git clone another repo.

Once you have a remote, you can push your branch:

git push my-remote my-branch

While you can do this with any branch and any repo, it usually only makes sense if the two repositories have a common history, such as when you clone a github repo locally or if you create a new repo locally and want to push a branch to an new, empty repo on github.