Re: More help needed on merging unrelated repos

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On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2008-11-04 23:30:56 +0100, Christian MICHON wrote:
>
>> note the merge can work, but it's still done in 2 steps. :(
>> thanks for suggesting this.
>
> If it had worked, you'd have gotten just one merge commit. What you
> want to do is entirely possible, but it seems the high-level commands
> were not designed with your use-case in mind.
>
> Another thing you could try is to merge the two branches separately,
> getting a history like this:
>
>  p1----\
>         \
>  p2---A--B
>      /
>  p3--
>
> And then use grafts to convince git that B has parents p1, p2, and p3
> (instead of its actual parents p1 and A). (Grep for "graft" in the
> Documentation directory.)
>
> And then use git-filter-branch to rewrite history so that the grafted
> history becomes the real history.
>
> --
> Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
>      www.treskal.com/kalle
>

nice suggestion Karl! it took a while to understand all the
consequences and workflow.
On top of your suggestion, I had to remove the
refs/original/refs/heads/master and the grafts file.

It worked well: quite a spell, but an efficient one. Kudo++

-- 
Christian
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