From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:32:10 GMT
Subject: Re: incorporating the past
Message-ID: <20070409183210.GX5436@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <87d52d1kli.fsf@mid.thomas-huehn.de>

Thomas H??hn <newsgroups@thomas-huehn.de> wrote:
> I have a file under version control, that I got at the point of file
> version 1.0. I start committing changes:
> 
> o--o--o--o--o--o--o
> ^                 ^
> git init,         current,
> version 1.0       version 1.6
> 
> Then I get the history up to my version 1.0 from somewhere else (former
> maintainer, whatever). In the form of plain text files, one for each
> version; say, versions 0.1 thru 0.9. I want to incorporate this past
> into my tree.
>
> Or can I do the same, only up to 0.9 instead of 1.0, and then "sew
> together" those histories?

Yes.  Look at the `grafts' file.  You can create a new repository
of the 0.9..1.0 history, then graft that repository as a new parent
of the 1.0 commit.  This lets you join in the old history behind
the existing history.  The Linux kernel folks have done this for
the kernel repository.

-- 
Shawn.