On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:24:43PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > I do have to work with the repo, and that is more important than having > a perfect repo. You might consider adopting a (relatively?) common strategy when importing historical projects: Actually start the history from scratch (git init && git add . && git commit -m"Initial commit") and fine-tune your historical import in a separate repository. Then, provide a script that people interested in the old history can run and it will graft the imported history to your pure-git history. Conceptually, it should be pretty simple: git fetch git://perl-company.nl/sccs-import.git echo initial_git_commit_sha1 last_imported_commit_sha1 \ >>$(git rev-parse --git-dir)/info/grafts Example of a fine-tuned script: http://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git?a=blob;f=contrib/grafthistory.sh If you find out that the import is not perfect later on, you can just redo it, refetch and rewrite the info/grafts line. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. -- Bill Gates -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
