From: Christian MICHON Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:51:58 GMT Subject: Re: how do I merge completely unrelated repositories ? Message-ID: <46d6db660806260351w6082b5f9q6db3ef62552fafc4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080626094522.GA29404@genesis.frugalware.org> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:39:37AM +0200, Christian MICHON wrote: >> How would you do it, since merge will not merge if it cannot find a >> common ancestor ? > > Did you try so? yes I did. it was failing. > > If there are no conflicting paths then a simple > > git pull /path/to/other/repo.git master pull = fetch + merge maybe I was not fetching the objects properly. > > or similar should work. > your hint works fine. thanks! I was starting considering rebasing the 2 repos on a common empty commit (that would have been desperate)... -- Christian -- http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !