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merging two repositories

Subject: merging two repositories

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2 messages between Jun 6, 2007 and Jun 6, 2007.

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joel reed· Jun 6, 2007, 14:56 UTC · lore

I've been maintaining a project in git for a while and making use of http://repo.or.cz/w/tfs.git as a public repository. Since I also needed a project site, I set something up at Google Code, which of course, forces you to use subversion.

I added the files to subversion, checked them in, then a few weeks later decided I should learn how to use git-svn. So now I have two trees, one pure git using repo.or.cz, and the other made by git-svn against Google' subversion.

Is there anyway to merge these two repositories into one? I don't want to lose the http://repo.or.cz/w/tfs.git history, but I don't care about the Google subversion history.

I tried moving the .git/svn folder from the git-svn managed repository into the repo.or.cz .git folder, but as I expected, that didn't work. Life's never that easy! Anyway, if anyone knows how to merge these two repos, I would love to hear about it.

jr
PS. Maybe, a more generalized use case here is
  a) maintain a git tree for a while
  b) decide you have to stick code in subversion for others sometime 
later, but you still want to use git and keep your git history
Johannes Schindelin· Jun 6, 2007, 18:01 UTC · re: joel reed · lore

Re: merging two repositories

Hi,
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, joel reed wrote:
> So now I have two trees, one pure git using repo.or.cz, and the other 
> made by git-svn against Google' subversion.

I'd merge them by fetching the pure-git one into the git-svn'ed. Or vice versa. Then, you can say "git merge <other-branch>". If the revisions are similiar (or identical), it will succeed even if they do not have any common ancestor.

Ciao, Dscho

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