Re: Grafting Alternate History

2012-09-04 Thread dag
Andreas Schwab sch...@linux-m68k.org writes: You can set up (the git mirror of) the public repository as a remote in the private repository and git cherry-pick the commits you want to copy over. Now why didn't I think of that!? :) Thanks for helping an old bumbler along. :)

Re: Grafting Alternate History

2012-09-01 Thread Andreas Schwab
d...@cray.com writes: For example, let's say we take a local copy of the private repository. I would like to somehow create an empty branch in that local copy and then populate it with the history of the public repository. I would like to be able to specify a git diff-like command on the

Grafting Alternate History

2012-08-31 Thread dag
I have an unfortunate situation where I have two subversion repositories for the same project, one a public version and one a private version. Because they are mirrors of svn repositories, they have very different histories as far as git is concerned. This is not all that uncommon but of course I