Re: [RFC] Allow git-am to operate in an empty git repo

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:16:10PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Peter Baumann wrote:
>> Try not to error out if we are in an emtpy git repo. This could be usefull
>> for exporting all your commits as emails and importing them latter with
>> git-am in a newly created repo.
>
> I like the sound of this. We've got a few old repos transferred from CVS
> where the usernames aren't correct, and it's too much of a trouble to
> fix them up now. With this in place, we could script it to run in an
> empty repo over-night, fixing that slightly annoying ugliness :)
>

Perhaps you want to take a look at git-filter-branch? It was written for
exactly the case like you described and is thus more suitable for your
needs.

-Peter
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