From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:21:07 GMT
Subject: Re: copy selected history between repostories
Message-ID: <20080719012107.GA14068@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080719010122.GA12047@mail.local.tull.net>

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:01:22AM +1000, Nick Andrew wrote:

> I couldn't figure out git-filter-branch, so I did the following,
> which worked for me:
> 
> First, export commits as patches in mbox format:
> 
> 	git log -p --first-parent --reverse --pretty=email $* > mbox
> [...]
> 
> Finally, import into new repo:
> 
> 	git-am mbox2

Note that this will lose any interesting history topology you had, like
branching and merging (and it may have trouble applying all patches in
that case, too). But if your history was a straight line, it should
produce equivalent results.

-Peff