Re: git fast-export | git fast-import doesn't work

[Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Ondrej Certik schrieb:
>> I am also trying to make the example simpler. I tried to squash the
>> first uninteresting ~1500 commits into one, but "git rebase -i"
>> uterrly fails after squashing about 600 commits. Still investigating.
>
> Don't use rebase. Set a graft and rewrite the history:
>
>   $ echo $(git rev-parse HEAD) $(git rev-parse HEAD~1500) >> \
>                .git/info/grafts
>
> Assuming "first 1500" means the "most recent 1500" commits. But you get
> the idea. You can truncate history as well by omitting the second SHA1.
> It's very convenient to keep gitk open and File->Reload after each graft
> that you set.
>
> When you're done with setting grafts:
>
>   $ git filter-branch -f --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
>
> (You are doing this on a copy of your repository, don't you?)

Thanks for the tip with grafts. I tried that on some other repository
when I needed to truncate the history and it works like a charm.

Ondrej