Re: Getting Commits from One Repository to Another

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:08:01PM +0000, Ryan wrote:

> Thanks to both of you for your help. I tried Peff's suggestion last
> night, and could not get it to work. Matthieu is correct that the
> public repo was not a clone but a fresh import. Furthermore, I
> discovered that work had been done between the last pull from private
> the the import into public. (Ugh!)

Ah, OK, I missed that when reading your initial report. Matthieu's
suggestion is the correct one, then.

> Anyway, before I saw Matthieu's post (away from internet, which is so
> rare these days), I managed to succeed by using git format-patch on
> the commits that I needed, and then used git am on the private repo.
> There was one conflict, but I was able to resolve it.
> 
> Hopefully I'm not faced with this problem again, but if so, I'll try
> Mattieu's suggestion.

Actually, you will find that "git rebase" is basically "format-patch |
am" under the hood, so you more or less did the same thing (but calling
rebase probably would have been a little more convenient).

-Peff