Re: Joining Repositories

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

  Hello,

Dear diary, on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:01:38PM CET, I got a letter
where Mathias Waack <Mathias.Waack@rantzau.de> said that...
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 01:58 pm, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Dear diary, on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:51:58PM CET, I got a letter
> > where Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> said that...
> >
> > >   But if you want r1/a, r2/b to turn to r/r1/a, r/r2/b, you will have
> > > to rewrite the history of each (and then do the above). One rough
> > > and untested sketch...
> > >
> > > 	mkdir r1-rewritten
> > > 	cd r1-rewritten
> > > 	cp -a ../r1/.git .
> >
> > 	mkdir commitmap
> >
> > > 	for commit in $(git-rev-list --topo-order HEAD | tac); do
> > > 		git-read-tree --prefix=r1/ $commit
> 
> ...git-read-tree doesn't know the parameter --prefix (just downloaded and 
> tried it on 0.99.9i). What version shall I use?

  oops, it seems this is only in the latest pu branch of git. If you are
not brave enough for that, you will need to use the prefix facility of
checkout-index instead, and it'll take much longer:

	git-read-tree $commit
	git-checkout-index -a --prefix=r1/
	rm .git/index
	cg-add -r r1/
	rm -rf r1
	.. then proceed with git-cat-file etc ..

  Note that I'm not sure when which feature was introduced. Your best
bet is to just use the latest stable GIT/Cogito versions.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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