From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Roger Garvin <yoyodyn@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding History
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:25:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d8ce650903192225wdd2c46ai7954afbb0034ba53@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319174732.GS23521@spearce.org>
2009/3/19 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
> Roger Garvin <yoyodyn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to add history to a repository?
>> We have just started using git, where before we had nothing but backup
>> directories all over the place. We created the git repository using our
>> existing source directory. Is there a way to now go and add some of the backup
>> source directories to the history? Or would this break all the SHA1 of the
>> current objects?
>
> Right, you need to change the SHA-1 of all of the commits in order
> to insert history in the past.
>
>> I am not sure it would be worth it at this point. But we are
>> still pretty early in our use of git so now would be the easiest time.
>
> You have two options:
Couldn't you just create import the whole tree and then rebase on top of it?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 17:38 Adding History Roger Garvin
2009-03-19 17:47 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-20 5:25 ` John Tapsell [this message]
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