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Re: More help needed on merging unrelated repos

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Nov 6, 2008, 15:28 UTC
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<20081106152843.GA16238@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
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On 2008-11-06 13:13:42 +0100, Christian MICHON wrote:
> nice suggestion Karl! it took a while to understand all the
> consequences and workflow. On top of your suggestion, I had to
> remove the refs/original/refs/heads/master and the grafts file.

I've never tried to use git-filter-branch, so I was deliberately vague. I was hoping you would be the enterprising type who would figure out the details anyway ... ;-)

> It worked well: quite a spell, but an efficient one. Kudo++

Well, that's Git for you. Once you get the (really simple) underlying data model you know what _can_ be done, even if it's not always obvious _how_ to do it.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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  1. Christian MICHONNov 4, 2008
  2. Andreas EricssonNov 4, 2008
  3. Christian MICHONNov 4, 2008
  4. Andreas EricssonNov 4, 2008
  5. Christian MICHONNov 4, 2008
  6. Karl HasselströmNov 6, 2008
  7. Christian MICHONNov 6, 2008
  8. Karl HasselströmNov 6, 2008

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