From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how do I merge completely unrelated repositories ?
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:04:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g3vt3r$lm3$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 46d6db660806260239xc57ffaag6469967ae2257cb1@mail.gmail.com
Christian MICHON wrote:
> I'd like to create a new empty repository and merge into it 2
> completely unrelated remote repositories.
>
> How would you do it, since merge will not merge if it cannot find a
> common ancestor ?
The problem probably is _empty_ repository (what do you want to merge),
not lack of common ancestors. git.git repository has joined unrelated
projects (git-mail-tools, gitweb, gitk, git-gui) and it has several
roots, and even a few separate branches.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-26 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-26 9:39 how do I merge completely unrelated repositories ? Christian MICHON
2008-06-26 9:45 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-26 10:51 ` Christian MICHON
2008-06-26 11:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-26 12:19 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-26 16:19 ` Oliver Kullmann
2008-06-26 18:26 ` Asheesh Laroia
2008-06-26 18:42 ` Kelly F. Hickel
2008-06-26 11:04 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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