Re: Best practices for updating old repos

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On 06/15/2017 09:22 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
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

Thanks, Stefan.   I'll look into this; it may be similar to what
I was thinking of doing.  I'll have to watch the video.

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