From: Mathias Waack Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:36:58 GMT Subject: Re: Joining Repositories Message-ID: <200601191236.58725.Mathias.Waack@rantzau.de> In-Reply-To: <20060118141442.GP28365@pasky.or.cz> Hello Petr, On Wednesday 18 January 2006 03:14 pm, Petr Baudis wrote: > > ...git-read-tree doesn't know the parameter --prefix (just downloaded and > > tried it on 0.99.9i). What version shall I use? > > oops, it seems this is only in the latest pu branch of git. If you are > not brave enough for that, I think I am;) > you will need to use the prefix facility of > checkout-index instead, and it'll take much longer: > > git-read-tree $commit > git-checkout-index -a --prefix=r1/ > rm .git/index > cg-add -r r1/ > rm -rf r1 > .. then proceed with git-cat-file etc .. Time doesn't matter (in this case). This solution seems to work. > Note that I'm not sure when which feature was introduced. Your best > bet is to just use the latest stable GIT/Cogito versions. Thanks for your suggestions, I've got a working solution. Now I'm going to spend the remaining days of this week by trying to understand why it works. Mathias