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Recording merges after repo conversion

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Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Oct 9, 2007, 07:09 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0710090807060.26773@ds9.cixit.se>
Hi!

I have a couple of repositories converted from CVS to Git using parsecvs. Some are just converted, some I've continued to develop after the conversion (and cloned a couple of times).

Since parsecvs gave me all the CVS branches, I would like to record the merge points in the Git history, if possible. I have commited merges with comments like "merged <branchname>", so I can probably find them quite easily, and I do have the imported CVS branches available. Can I record the merge information so git knows about them?

Is it safe to do so on a repository that has already been cloned (i.e, will a later push/pull work)?

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