From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:54:15 GMT
Subject: Re: refs/replace advice
Message-ID: <20110802215415.GA13327@arf.padd.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110729153122.GA4535@padd.com>

pw@padd.com wrote on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:31 -0700:
> I've got two near-identical git repos, both imported from
> gigantic upstream p4 repos.  They started at slightly different
> times so have different commit SHA1s, even though the tree
> contents are the same.  I can't filter-branch either of them; too
> many users already.
>
> I'm trying to use "git replace" to avoid cloning the entire set
> of duplicate commits across a slow inter-site link.  Like this:

To follow-up, I decided this was not the right approach.
Instead, for future git-p4 repo creation, I've patched git-p4
to make sure the timestamps and hence the initial SHA1s are
identical.

Thanks, Hannes, for your suggestion, though.

		-- Pete