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+#! /bin/bash
+set -e
+
+# NOTE: go-alert depends on go-common
+
+REPOS=("autofile" "clist" "db" "events" "flowrate" "logger" "process")
+
+mkdir common
+git mv *.go common
+git mv LICENSE common
+
+git commit -m "move all files to common/ to begin repo merge"
+
+for repo in "${REPOS[@]}"; do 
+	# add and fetch the repo
+	git remote add -f "$repo" "https://github.com/tendermint/go-${repo}"
+
+	# merge master and move into subdir
+	git merge "$repo/master" --no-edit
+
+	if [[ "$repo" != "flowrate" ]]; then
+		mkdir "$repo"
+		git mv *.go "$repo/"
+	fi
+
+	set +e # these might not exist
+        git mv *.md "$repo/"
+	git mv README "$repo/README.md"
+	git mv Makefile "$repo/Makefile"
+        git rm LICENSE
+	set -e
+        
+	# commit
+	git commit -m "merge go-${repo}"
+
+	git remote rm "$repo"
+done
+
+go get github.com/ebuchman/got
+got replace "tendermint/go-common" "tendermint/go-common/common"
+for repo in "${REPOS[@]}"; do 
+
+	if [[ "$repo" != "flowrate" ]]; then
+		got replace "tendermint/go-${repo}" "tendermint/go-common/${repo}"
+	else
+		got replace "tendermint/go-${repo}/flowrate" "tendermint/go-common/flowrate"
+	fi
+done
+
+git add -u 
+git commit -m "update import paths"
+
+# TODO: change any paths in non-Go files