From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:04:27 GMT
Subject: Re: how do I merge completely unrelated repositories ?
Message-ID: <g3vt3r$lm3$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <46d6db660806260239xc57ffaag6469967ae2257cb1@mail.gmail.com>

Christian MICHON wrote:

> I'd like to create a new empty repository and merge into it 2
> completely unrelated remote repositories.
> 
> How would you do it, since merge will not merge if it cannot find a
> common ancestor ?

The problem probably is _empty_ repository (what do you want to merge),
not lack of common ancestors.  git.git repository has joined unrelated
projects (git-mail-tools, gitweb, gitk, git-gui) and it has several
roots, and even a few separate branches.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git