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Re: Stitching together private svn repo and public git repo

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Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date
Jan 2, 2008, 22:46 UTC
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<20080102224611.GA14984@hashpling.org>
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<37fcd2780801021413g5f2a602dkb9fc289a13517375@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:13:54AM +0300, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
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> I believe there is a much easier way to do that using .git/info/grafts
> The first step is to create .git/info/grafts, which specifies commit-id
> and its parents for each commit that you want to change. Then you
> can check the result using gitk, and if you are satisfied with what
> you see then you run git filter-branch on it to convert 'fake' parents
> into real ones.
> 
> Dmitry
>

Oh yes, this is much easier. Unless I'm missing something, the documentation on grafts is fairly sparse, though. They are mentioned (almost in passing) in git help filter-branch but the file format is only documented in repository-layout.txt which seems more developer than user oriented.

Charles.
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  5. Gregory JefferisJan 3, 2008
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