From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: how do I merge completely unrelated repositories ? Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:04:27 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <46d6db660806260239xc57ffaag6469967ae2257cb1@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 26 13:05:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KBpIY-0001AS-Bf for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:05:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757159AbYFZLEj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:04:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751519AbYFZLEj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:04:39 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34930 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757868AbYFZLEi (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:04:38 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KBpHF-0004aJ-UT for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:04:33 +0000 Received: from abvw164.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.8.220.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:04:33 +0000 Received: from jnareb by abvw164.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:04:33 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: abvw164.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Christian MICHON wrote: > 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 ? The problem probably is _empty_ repository (what do you want to merge), not lack of common ancestors. git.git repository has joined unrelated projects (git-mail-tools, gitweb, gitk, git-gui) and it has several roots, and even a few separate branches. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git