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From: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Merge (or maybe rebase) question
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:55:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26ae428a0910120455k7ab5aa5ag8d701050e7acec5f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Another how best to do this.

- I have my project all nicely in git with all the different releases
and versions in there going back years. Happy :-)

- I have a customer who has heaviliy modified an oldish version of the
software.

- I have identified the version that they modified and created a
branch in my git repo based on that version (i.e. what they would have
started with before modifying it)

- Their changes where applied to a simple download - no version
control, no nothing.

I now need to update them to the latest version of the software - can
git help me here or is it all a disaster?

As usual, any advice much appreciated.

PS. To make matters worse - their original is full of expanced CVS
$Id:$ tags so it will look to git like every single file has changed.
Damn you cvs!!!

             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-12 11:55 Howard Miller [this message]
2009-10-12 18:13 ` Merge (or maybe rebase) question Alex Riesen

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