From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:28:43 GMT
Subject: Re: More help needed on merging unrelated repos
Message-ID: <20081106152843.GA16238@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <46d6db660811060413q7f4e2437maa6d87a27b8704b@mail.gmail.com>

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