Re: Getting Commits from One Repository to Another

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:37:54PM -0400, Big Lebowski wrote:

> Essentially, when I came on a project, a git repository was made  
> available to me (lets call that 'public_repo'). That repository was put up 
> on an unfuddle account, as an initial check-in; it was not cloned from the 
> repository they were working on (lets call that 'private_repo'). I wrote 
> some code, and pushed it to the repository. Now that I guess they feel 
> comfortable with me, they reveal to me the private_repo.
>
> How do I get my code from public_repo to private_repo?

You could just repeat the push you made to public_repo to private_repo.
Or you could push to private_repo from public_repo, or pull from
public_repo to private_repo. One of the results of git's distributed
nature is that a commit is a commit is a commit. It doesn't matter where
it comes from: pushing or pulling the same commit (i.e., the same sha-1
commit id) will give the same results.

Does that make sense? If not, can you be more specific about the setup
(i.e., which commands were run to create public_repo and your personal
clone)? Without that, it's hard to offer more specific advice.

-Peff