Re: Best practices for updating old repos

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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Michael Eager <eager@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One other variant of the rebase approach I've thought of is to do
> this incrementally, rebasing the old repo against an upstream commit
> a short time after the old repo was forked, fixing any conflicts,
> rebuilding and fixing build failures.  Then repeat, with a bit
> newer commit.  Then repeat, until I get to the top.  This sounds
> tedious, but some of it can be automated.  It also might result in
> my making the changes compatible with upstream code which was later
> abandoned or significantly changed.

This sounds like

https://github.com/mhagger/git-imerge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMZ2_-Ny_zc



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