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From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Adding History
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:25:25 +0000
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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 back=
up
>> directories all over the place. =C2=A0We created the git repository =
using our
>> existing source directory. =C2=A0Is there a way to now go and add so=
me of the backup
>> source directories to the history? =C2=A0Or 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. =C2=A0But we are
>> still pretty early in our use of git so now would be the easiest tim=
e.
>
> You have two options:

Couldn't you just create import the whole tree and then rebase on top o=
f it?