From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:43:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Prepend the history of one git tree to another
Message-ID: <20060220104345.GG26454@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <43F99684.5070403@op5.se>

Hello Andreas,

> Something like this might do the trick, depending on how linear your 
> ancestry graph is:

> $ cd blastwave
> $ first=$(git rev-list HEAD | tail -n 1)
> $ git format-patch -k --stdout $first..HEAD > ../blw.mbox
> $ cd ../blastwave.old
> $ git am -k -3 ../blw.mbox

My graph is very linear. However. I have binaries checked into my tree.
I am not sure if format-patch can handle this.

        Thomas