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Re: move files between disparate repos and maintain version history

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 3, 2009, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID
<20090303192743.GA3530@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:08:17PM -0500, David Copeland wrote:
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> The patch file looks correct.  I'm wondering if this is a result of
> both repos being connected to svn?
> 
> my process was:
> 
> - format patch
> - go to other repo
> - git svn rebase
> - apply patch
> - git svn dcommit
> 
> Could dcommit change the dates since, to svn, they are appear as
> commits right now?

I know very little about git-svn. But you could test your theory by checking the dates between the penultimate and ultimate steps.

-Peff
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