Re: Committing with past date?

From: Russ Dill <russ.dill@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 1, 2008, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <f9d2a5e10809011202v418a71cbw489c58fdf468c940@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1220286321.5474.6.camel@magnus-desktop>

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Magnus Hjorth <magnus.hjorth@home.se> wrote:

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> Thank you Jakub!
>
> Forgot to look in the main git manpage, and that variable wasn't
> mentioned in the git-commit manpage or in any FAQ..
>
> Now I have a more tricky question.
>
> The first part of my application history (the stone age) was maintained
> manually using tarballs, but the second part was maintained using CVS
> (the dark ages).
>
> I have successfully imported the CVS history using git-cvsimport, but
> now I want to add these older revisions that were made with tarballs to
> the same tree, before the CVS revisions. The last tarball and the first
> CVS revision have identical content, and I would like to somehow "glue"
> the histories together.
>
> Can this be done?
>

I think you want git filter-branh --parent-filter ...