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Is it possible to "graft" a series of commits into/onto an existing repository?

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PDPatrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 27, 2007, 13:25 UTC
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I have an empty directory, managed by git and I want to graft another (git) repository onto it, such that that history is maintained. Is this possible?

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