From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Peter Waller <peter.waller@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merging repositories and their histories
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:35:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080818173511.GC6014@blimp.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19035412.post@talk.nabble.com>
Peter Waller, Mon, Aug 18, 2008 18:46:14 +0200:
>
> I have three repositories, A, B and C. I wish to bring them together to only
> one repository (.), where they are in a directory called ./Archive, so..
> ./Archive/{A,B,C}. Then I plan at a later date to move files arbitrarily
> from ./Archive/{A/B/C}/Something and into ./Something{A/B/C}. (A lame
> example, but illustrates what I want to do).
If this transition is meant to be persistent (IOW, the A, B and C stop
existing as repos on their own) you can rewrite their histories to be
in the directories (with git filter-branch) and just merge them in
one. Then the histories will look like as if they have never grown
separately.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-18 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-18 16:46 Merging repositories and their histories Peter Waller
2008-08-18 17:35 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-08-18 18:16 ` Peter Waller
[not found] ` <d3d284ca0808181115j2c9ab5ecufb66780f45d28207@mail.gmail.com>
2008-08-18 19:40 ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-18 21:25 ` Peter Waller
2008-08-21 21:48 ` Marcus Griep
2008-08-21 21:53 ` Peter Waller
2008-08-22 12:19 ` Alex Riesen
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