Re: Stitching together private svn repo and public git repo

I suspect your message was linewrapped by your MUA and ...

Gregory Jefferis [off-list ref] writes:

...
# set up the grafts
cat > .git/info/grafts <<EOF
# connect r2 of git-svn to v1.86 of nm-ucl
# r1 (which was an identical initial import) will now be detached (and
forgotten)
52b1933421ef524811407fa4c240da58ceec5749
eca3db14fcf25744fdf585456f03599a9db2af96
#
# Make fake merge with Neuromatic v1.91b
# svn-manualmerge1 svn-manualmerge1~1 public-v1.91b
120282ee5275027312dde386c8995218f361cf35
0962cb27f7ad92f44def04630e8e6a22b86e0699
6735057f53dd57248c7ec23f6ae9f22085d98fba
EOF

# running git-status seems to stop git thinking that the working dir is
dirty
git-status
...

... your grafts file look as if you are marking five commits as
root commits, which is not what you wanted ;-).

The reason I mention this is because I think with a bit more
polishing and some background description your message is a good
material to add to Documentation/howto/.