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Re: Stitching together two split segments from svn

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 25, 2008, 07:21 UTC
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<200807250921.35412.jnareb@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Liam Healy wrote:
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> 
> Thanks for the advice -- this did exactly what I wanted.
> 
> For anyone else wanting to do this: one thing that threw me for a
> while was that .git/info/grafts does not accept an abbreviated SHA,
> the full 40 hex digits is needed.  I would see "bad graft data" from
> gitk with no other explanation.  There is very little documentation
> that I could find on the grafts file; the best I could find was in the
> man page for git-filter branch:
>
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-filter-branch.html.

You can find definition of grafts in `gitglossary', and where you can find them together with description of grafts file format in `gitrepository-layout'

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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