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Re: cvs importing a forked project

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Oct 1, 2010, 17:57 UTC
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On 10/01/2010 12:38 PM, Eric Frederich wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> I have a project (several actually) where development was done in cvs
> for 10 years.  Then, about 5 years ago, a copy of the latest was made
> and development continued in a new project.
> Development in the old project stopped for the most part.
> 
> Is there any way where I can combine these two projects in git?
> Basically, take the newer project's first commit and make its parent
> the the last commit of the older project.
> Development was pretty linear.
You can do this very easily using grafts.
   https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GraftPoint

filter-branch can be used to rewrite the history and make the grafts permanent.

-Brandon
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  1. Eric FrederichOct 1, 2010
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  3. Brandon CaseyOct 1, 2010
  4. Eric FrederichOct 5, 2010
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 5, 2010
  6. Eric FrederichOct 6, 2010
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