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Re: Prepend the history of one git tree to another

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TGThomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date
Feb 20, 2006, 12:20 UTC
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<20060220122052.GD5318@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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<43F9A0B3.6020304@michonline.com>
Hello,
> I wrote a program called "graft-ripple", that takes a commit, and
> rewrites the current branch's history to reflect as if it started at
> that commit. It doesn't ever actually work with diffs or anything, it
> just reads commits and trees and recreates them.
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0511/12965.html
that is *exactly* what I was looking for. Thanks.
> Hope this helps!
Well it does!
Thanks,
        Thomas
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