From: "Russ Dill" <russ.dill@gmail.com>
To: "Magnus Hjorth" <magnus.hjorth@home.se>
Cc: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Committing with past date?
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:02:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9d2a5e10809011202v418a71cbw489c58fdf468c940@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220286321.5474.6.camel@magnus-desktop>
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Magnus Hjorth <magnus.hjorth@home.se> wrote:
> Thank you Jakub!
>
> Forgot to look in the main git manpage, and that variable wasn't
> mentioned in the git-commit manpage or in any FAQ..
>
> Now I have a more tricky question.
>
> The first part of my application history (the stone age) was maintained
> manually using tarballs, but the second part was maintained using CVS
> (the dark ages).
>
> I have successfully imported the CVS history using git-cvsimport, but
> now I want to add these older revisions that were made with tarballs to
> the same tree, before the CVS revisions. The last tarball and the first
> CVS revision have identical content, and I would like to somehow "glue"
> the histories together.
>
> Can this be done?
>
I think you want git filter-branh --parent-filter ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-31 10:44 Committing with past date? Magnus Hjorth
2008-08-31 11:12 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-01 16:25 ` Magnus Hjorth
2008-09-01 19:02 ` Russ Dill [this message]
2008-09-02 0:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-02 2:42 ` Magnus Hjorth
2009-02-03 4:18 ` Similar thread Zabre
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