Re: Recording merges after repo conversion

On Oct 9, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Peter Karlsson wrote:

Hi!

I have a couple of repositories converted from CVS to Git using
parsecvs. Some are just converted, some I've continued to develop  
after
the conversion (and cloned a couple of times).

Since parsecvs gave me all the CVS branches, I would like to record  
the
merge points in the Git history, if possible. I have commited merges
with comments like "merged <branchname>", so I can probably find them
quite easily, and I do have the imported CVS branches available. Can I
record the merge information so git knows about them?

Is it safe to do so on a repository that has already been cloned (i.e,
will a later push/pull work)?

I think you can use grafts do achieve this.

 From Documentation/repository-layout.txt:
info/grafts::
         This file records fake commit ancestry information, to
         pretend the set of parents a commit has is different
         from how the commit was actually created.  One record
         per line describes a commit and its fake parents by
         listing their 40-byte hexadecimal object names separated
         by a space and terminated by a newline.

Cheers,

-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory