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Re: Transplant branch from another repository

Subject: Re: Transplant branch from another repository

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2 messages between Dec 1, 2009 and Dec 17, 2009.

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Dale Farnsworth· Dec 1, 2009, 16:53 UTC · lore
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> Say, I have two repositories A and B (local, independent, but similar
> - they are for content tracking and not collaboration purposes). A has
> a branch 'a', which I want to have in B. What I mean is that I'd like
> to have the sequence of changes in the branch 'a' to be present in B,
> thus creating an independent branch 'b' in B.
> 
> Is there any way to achieve this? One thing that I could think of is
> to use 'format-patch' to generate the list of patch files from A. But
> I don't see how to convert those patches to a sequence of commits in
> repo B. I could do a 'git apply patches/*' but then all patches
> collapse to one single commit. If format-patch is a/the way, could
> somebody tell me how to get this done? Or are there any alternatives?
> 
> FWIW: I'm running Git under Cygwin, and sendmail isn't configured.
Try "cd B; git fetch A a:b"
-Dale
Dale Farnsworth

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