Re: Transplant branch from another repository

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Jeenu V venit, vidit, dixit 01.12.2009 12:01:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

>From within your B repo:

git fetch pathtoA a:b

Cheers,
Michael
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