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From: "Peter Eriksen" <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Subject: Re: little conundrum
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:16:52 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:48:57PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Thursday 03 Nov 2005 18:10, Peter Eriksen wrote:
[snip]
> > ]cd original
> > ]git-init-db
> > ]git-add all-the-files
> > ]git-commit -m "Initial import"
> > ]cp -rf ../modified/* .
> > ]git-status
> > ...fix things up adding and deleting files
> > ]git-commit -m "First big change

Perhaps something like this is better (now I actually tried it out):

]rm -rf linux-2.6/.git
]cp -r linux-2.6 peter-2.6
...Initialize a repo in linux-2.6 with cg-init or similar and commit.
...Remove, add and change files in peter-2.6.
]mv linux-2.6/.git peter-2.6/.git
]cd peter-2.6/
]git-status

How does this work for you?

Peter