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Adding History

From
RGRoger Garvin <yoyodyn@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 19, 2009, 17:38 UTC
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<loom.20090319T173541-173@post.gmane.org>

Is there a way to add history to a repository? We have just started using git, where before we had nothing but backup directories all over the place. We created the git repository using our existing source directory. Is there a way to now go and add some of the backup source directories to the history? Or would this break all the SHA1 of the current objects? I am not sure it would be worth it at this point. But we are still pretty early in our use of git so now would be the easiest time. 

Roger
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