From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:25:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Adding History
Message-ID: <43d8ce650903192225wdd2c46ai7954afbb0034ba53@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090319174732.GS23521@spearce.org>

2009/3/19 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
> 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?