Re: Merging repositories and their histories

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I don't quite understand what you are suggesting I do.

I have looked over the filter-branch manpage.

What would I first do? Copy all three repositories to
./Archive/{A,B,C}? Then rewrite their histories?

- Peter

2008/8/18 Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Peter Waller, Mon, Aug 18, 2008 18:46:14 +0200:
> >
> > I have three repositories, A, B and C. I wish to bring them together to only
> > one repository (.), where they are in a directory called ./Archive, so..
> > ./Archive/{A,B,C}. Then I plan at a later date to move files arbitrarily
> > from ./Archive/{A/B/C}/Something and into ./Something{A/B/C}. (A lame
> > example, but illustrates what I want to do).
>
> If this transition is meant to be persistent (IOW, the A, B and C stop
> existing as repos on their own) you can rewrite their histories to be
> in the directories (with git filter-branch) and just merge them in
> one. Then the histories will look like as if they have never grown
> separately.
>
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