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Re: Grafting Alternate History

From
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Sep 1, 2012, 06:48 UTC
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<m2harick7z.fsf@igel.home>
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<dag@cray.com> writes:
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> For example, let's say we take a local copy of the private repository.
> I would like to somehow create an empty branch in that local copy and
> then populate it with the history of the public repository.  I would
> like to be able to specify a git diff-like command on the public graft
> branch to get some changes over a range of commits and apply those
> changes to one of the private branches (say master).

You can set up (the git mirror of) the public repository as a remote in the private repository and git cherry-pick the commits you want to copy over.

Andreas.
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