# merging commit history 3 messages from 2013-07-11 to 2013-07-17. Participants: Stephen & Linda Smith, Andrew Ardill. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/34411 ## Stephen & Linda Smith, 2013-07-11 23:43 Subject: merging commit history Message-ID: <3186432.VaN86YJOtL@thunderbird> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/3186432.VaN86YJOtL%40thunderbird ``` I'm working on a project that used to use a proprietary CM system (aka oldCM). At a point in time, the state of the code was frozen and used as the basis for commits in SVN. What I would like to to do is take the individal commits from the oldCM and place them into git knowing that the time/date stamps won't match. Then I want to do whatever is necessary to setup git so that I can run "svn rebase" to pull in the commits from the SVN repository. What is the easy way to do this? ``` ## Andrew Ardill, 2013-07-12 00:11 Subject: Re: merging commit history Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAH5451njL_AQqi0pHMsUvW9iC69Y8sEEwgHr9iCA9FoG%3Da8E_A%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <3186432.VaN86YJOtL@thunderbird> ``` On 12 July 2013 09:43, Stephen & Linda Smith wrote: > I'm working on a project that used to use a proprietary CM system (aka oldCM). At a point in time, the state of the code was frozen and used as the basis for commits in SVN. > > What I would like to to do is take the individal commits from the oldCM and place them into git knowing that the time/date stamps won't match. Then I want to do whatever is necessary to > setup git so that I can run "svn rebase" to pull in the commits from the SVN repository. > > What is the easy way to do this? There may be other tools that make this easier, but if I had this problem I would simply create two repositories, one for oldCM and one for SVN. I would then merge the two together (as branches with different roots) and do my rebase from there. I haven't tried this, and maybe there is something I am missing, but there shouldn't be too much pain going that way. Regards, Andrew Ardill ``` ## Stephen & Linda Smith, 2013-07-17 01:08 Subject: Re: merging commit history Message-ID: <2783346.mfr0aMU5vx@thunderbird> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/2783346.mfr0aMU5vx%40thunderbird In-Reply-To: <3186432.VaN86YJOtL@thunderbird> ``` I did as Andrew suggested and created two git repositories with one branch using oldCM history and the second branch using having the svn history. Then I checked out the svn branch and rebased onto oldCM. The head of the combined branch is named master. How do I manually set git/git-svn up so that HEAD points to -r rev in the svn repository? Googling doesn't come up with a solution; I previously thought google knows all. When done, I would like git svn dcommit to be able to commit to the svn repo. Thanks sps On Friday, July 12, 2013 10:11:41 AM Andrew Ardill wrote: > On 12 July 2013 09:43, Stephen & Linda Smith wrote: > > I'm working on a project that used to use a proprietary CM system (aka oldCM). At a point in time, the state of the code was frozen and used as the basis for commits in SVN. > > > > What I would like to to do is take the individal commits from the oldCM and place them into git knowing that the time/date stamps won't match. Then I want to do whatever is necessary to > > setup git so that I can run "svn rebase" to pull in the commits from the SVN repository. > > > > What is the easy way to do this? > > > There may be other tools that make this easier, but if I had this > problem I would simply create two repositories, one for oldCM and one > for SVN. I would then merge the two together (as branches with > different roots) and do my rebase from there. > > I haven't tried this, and maybe there is something I am missing, but > there shouldn't be too much pain going that way. > > > Regards, > > Andrew Ardill > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ```