Re: switching upstream tips

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

2009/5/13 Ittay Dror <ittay.dror@gmail.com>:
>> Alex Riesen wrote:
>>> * Reorder my history so that my commits are on top of the tip of the old
>>> upstream repository.
>>
>> Look at "git rebase -i" (interactive rebase)
>
> well, i was hoping for something more automatic. git rebase will list all
> commits without author, so i'll have to manually figure which of them is
> mine from the commend and reorder

git rebase will list only commits not on upstream (simplified).
Has nothing to do with author being absent.

>>> * Change the upstream repository reference so it points to the new
>>> repository
>>
>> Just edit your .git/config and re-fetch.
>
> but then git suddenly sees a bunch of new objects (because of the svn
> changes) and i get a lot of conflicts.

"git fetch" and "git remote update" do not produce conflicts. You cannot
get them unless you also do a merge (like when you do "git merge" or
"git pull").

> note that it is not the directory structure that changed, just the svn
> repository which is included in the commit comment (by git-svn) and
> so changes the commit sha1.

Ok, that simplifies everything. Just cherry-pick (see "git cherry-pick")
your commits on new upstream. You might find it easiest if you cherry-pick
them on commits in new upstream which correspond the old-upstream
exactly.