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how do I merge completely unrelated repositories ?

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Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 26, 2008, 09:39 UTC
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Hi,

I'd like to create a new empty repository and merge into it 2 completely unrelated remote repositories.

How would you do it, since merge will not merge if it cannot find a common ancestor ?

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