On Thursday, 19 March 2009 21:18:17 Jeff King wrote: > I don't think this has ever worked in any version of git. I did find a way to help myself in the end. Still it was still a major, unnecessary annoyance. I ran into this problem when trying to reconstruct a project's history (after going RCS -> CVS -> git many things were still wrong like unrelated RCS files which ended up in the history, RCS files being moved to the Attic in the original tree to indicate deletes [which means they will happily live on from a CVS point of view], etc.). The easiest way I could find how to get rid of all the mess without going totally insane was to git-format-patch the repository, fix up the major things in the mbox, and then recreate the history. In the end I ended up preparing the initial commit by hand followed by "commit -c HASH" to preserve the metadata. (The cvsimport branch had a different commit at its tip, so I couldn't use commit --amend on that.) After that, I git-am'ed the rest of the mbox onto that reconstructed commit. This could have been significantly easier. > There are many other ways to do this. That's really not the point. Thanks though. Andreas -- 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
