Re: Advice on converting to git from versioning-by-directory

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2006, 11:02 UTC
Message-ID: <200611231102.20015.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061123100757.GB32620@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thursday 2006 November 23 10:07, Jeff King wrote:

> If I understand you correctly, you want to take four branches, each with
> data in version1/, version2/, etc, and make it look like they all had
> data in the project root throughout history. Is that right?

Yes. In essence I want to move the spatial dimension (directories) into git's time dimension (branches).

> If so, cogito's cg-admin-rewritehist can probably do what you want (I
> also posted a script a while back to do this exact thing, and I can dig
> it up if you want).

I will have a look at cg-admin-rewritehist. After Andy pointed out that they were just like traditional svn branches, I'm having good luck using multiple runs of git-svn to track each directory as if it were a separate branch.

Thank you for the offer of a script, but don't go to any trouble to find it just yet. I think I have it licked now.

Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE