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From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merging (joining/stiching/rewriting) history of "unrelated" git repositories
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 08:10:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA01CsrAPfE+hMwNMEF7epRcFQyhdeBxm9qSH=eF6v3kyyMu2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874l5vwxhw.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 5:25 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, May 15 2019, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm migrating two repositories from svn. I already did svn->git
> > migration (git-svn clone) and now have two git repositories.
> >
> > I would like to merge them into 1 git repository, but to merge also
> > history - branches and tags.
> >
[...]
> > There's additional difficulty of handling merges...
> >
> You might be able to use https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo
>
> But I'd say try something even more stupid first:
>
>  1. Migrate repo A to Git
>  2. Migrate repo B to Git
>  3. "git subtree add" B's history to A
>  4. "git rebase" the history to linear-ize it
>
> At this point you'll have A's history first, then B. Then run some
> script to date order the commits, and just "git cherry-pick" those in
> the order desired in a loop to a fresh history.
>
> Maybe that sort of stupidity will wreck your merges etc., so you might
> need less stupid methods :)

I think both git-filter-repo and the subtree+rebase do not handle
branches/merges well :(


-- 
Piotr Krukowiecki

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15 14:52 Merging (joining/stiching/rewriting) history of "unrelated" git repositories Piotr Krukowiecki
2019-05-15 15:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-15 20:33   ` Elijah Newren
2019-05-16  6:38     ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2019-05-17 13:08       ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2019-05-20 13:54     ` Jakub Narebski
2019-05-21  7:53       ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2019-05-16  6:10   ` Piotr Krukowiecki [this message]

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