Re: Adding History
2009/3/19 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
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> Roger Garvin <yoyodyn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to add history to a repository?
>> We have just started using git, where before we had nothing but backup
>> directories all over the place. We created the git repository using our
>> existing source directory. Is there a way to now go and add some of the backup
>> source directories to the history? Or would this break all the SHA1 of the
>> current objects?
>
> Right, you need to change the SHA-1 of all of the commits in order
> to insert history in the past.
>
>> I am not sure it would be worth it at this point. But we are
>> still pretty early in our use of git so now would be the easiest time.
>
> You have two options:
Couldn't you just create import the whole tree and then rebase on top of it?
John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>