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).I would like ./SomethingA (etc) to have their complete histories from the old repository. I thought I would do this with the subtree mechanism described at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html, but I have had little luck getting it to work as I desired. Firstly, I create a new repository with git init, then I "remote add A", "merge" and "readtree". This immediately leads to two copies of A's files, in ./Archive/A/Files and ./Files. The files in Archive/A do not have any history. Then if I do this with B, the files do not appear in ./, but again they do not have their history. I have tried using git log --follow - M, but this does not seem to help. I have tried numerous other strategies, but none seem to work. I thought I would get around my problems doing the merge, then moving the files - this works for A, but when I move on to B, the files are not in ./, so I can't move them. If I read-tree some files, git status/ commit shows them as 'new files' and does not seem to recognize them as old files with a long history. Any help would be appreciated on this problem. Thanks in advance, - Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
