Re: git am from scratch

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:09:24PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

> lates git (e986ceb0): there is a bug in git am when trying to recreate the 
> entire history of a repository:

I don't think this has ever worked in any version of git.

It might be nice to have, since it does come up once in a while, so I
suspect patches would be welcome.

But...

> When the first commit is added by hand instead, git am will import the
> rest of the mbox without problems. This is annoying because it's at
> least not immediately obvious how to recreate the initial commit with
> all the metadata.
> 
> Is this easily fixed?

There are many other ways to do this. Have you tried:

  - simply pulling the old repo into the new one?

  - if they are not connected in real-time, creating a bundle from the
    first and pulling it into the latter?

  - if you want to tweak the commit data during the process, have you
    tried using fast-export/fast-import rather than format-patch/am?

-Peff