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From: "Christian MICHON" <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Subject: how do I merge completely unrelated repositories ?
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:39:37 +0200
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Hi,

I'd like to create a new empty repository and merge into it 2
completely unrelated remote repositories.

How would you do it, since merge will not merge if it cannot find a
common ancestor ?

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