Re: refs/replace advice

[Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>]

pw@padd.com wrote on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:31 -0700:
> I've got two near-identical git repos, both imported from
> gigantic upstream p4 repos.  They started at slightly different
> times so have different commit SHA1s, even though the tree
> contents are the same.  I can't filter-branch either of them; too
> many users already.
>
> I'm trying to use "git replace" to avoid cloning the entire set
> of duplicate commits across a slow inter-site link.  Like this:

To follow-up, I decided this was not the right approach.
Instead, for future git-p4 repo creation, I've patched git-p4
to make sure the timestamps and hence the initial SHA1s are
identical.

Thanks, Hannes, for your suggestion, though.

		-- Pete