Create a git repo using the directory content.
Delete the directory content from the original repo (if existing in current git repo being used)
Now add this newly created repo as a submodule.
<pre><code>git submodule add &lt;git-repo-link&gt;
</code></pre>Eg.
<blockquote>
git submodule add <a href="https://github.com/jsbisht/project-data.git" class="autolinkedURL autolinkedURL-url" target="_blank">github.com/jsbisht/project-data.git</a>
</blockquote>

Create a git repo using the directory content.

Delete the directory content from the original repo (if existing in current git repo being used)

Now add this newly created repo as a submodule.

```
git submodule add <git-repo-link>
```

Eg.

> git submodule add https://github.com/jsbisht/project-data.git

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